Recently, the New York Times published an opinion piece about religious liberty and it made a stir. Headlined “We are taking religious freedom too far,” the piece made waves not because of the subject matter, but because of how straightforward author Margaret Renkl was about stripping Americans of one of their most fundamental rights.
In the piece, Renkl rattles off a number of examples that show people are being discriminatory, even engaging in behaviors that hurt or kill other people, on account of them exercising their God-given, constitutionally protected, religious freedom. She writes of a bakery owner in Tennessee who, much like Jack Phillips, was unable to provide a wedding cake to a couple once he learned the pair getting married were lesbians. He claimed doing so would have violated his beliefs. Renkl claims “Conservative Christians are forever trying to inject their personal religious beliefs into the public sphere.” She rants:
