Two things are certain whenever a story involving religious liberty is in the news: Many national reporters will be confused, and newsrooms will hand out scare quotes like party favors.

Where other hot-button political debates, including healthcare reform and LGBT rights, are treated without any protective gloves, religious liberty normally appears in news reports and headlines carefully quarantined between two quotation marks.

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