Religious discrimination is on the rise and more pervasive than you’d think

Published September 21, 2017 4:16pm ET



According to an annual report about religious liberty released earlier this week, there has been a small but steady uptick in hostility towards religious liberty in the last year. First Liberty, a law firm that defends religious freedom, started compiling “Undeniable: The Survey of Hostility to Religion in America,” in 2011. Since then, they have documented 1,400 attacks on religious freedom and there’s been a 15 percent increase in legal cases that affect religious freedom over the past year.

The report includes descriptions of people battling for their own religious freedom in all walks of life and in a myriad of situations. From a high school football coach fired for kneeling in prayer after games, and a bakery shut down for declining to create a custom cake to celebrate a same-sex wedding, to a Navy chaplain disciplined for counseling members of the military from the Bible, clearly the religious liberty war is no respecter of employer, occupation, or title.

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