Episode 06. Freedom of Religion Pt 2: Slipping From Secularism
How can governments protect exercise of religion while maintaining a secular state? In the second part of our discussion on freedom of religion, Micah Schwartzman (Virginia) explains how decisions of the US Supreme Court extend religious freedom in ways that undercut the state’s commitment to secularism, by granting exemptions to general laws when those exemptions lack real justification.