Of the many changes in our politics — the movement of political power from the Northeast and Midwest to the South and West, the coarsening of our national conversation, the transformations wrought by technological change, including the internet and social media — the one that might be the most astonishing is the dramatic increase in the prominence of religion in political life.
The Founders all made bows to religious values, arguing in one way or another that liberty and religion were inextricably united and, moreover — this is a subtle but vital difference — that religious liberty was indispensable to a free people.
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