Recent studies quantify the societal benefits of religious freedom. [4] These findings report, for example, that:
- Religious freedom promotes stability in a pluralistic society, but when limited, it correlates to increased violence and conflict.
- Wherever religious freedom is high, there is more economic prosperity, better health, lower income inequality and prolonged democracy.
- Religious freedom directly correlates with the protection afforded other civil and human rights; if some agency can control the yearnings of faith and conviction, then that agency could, in James Madison’s words, “sweep away all our fundamental rights,” such as freedom of speech, press and assembly.
You mean, like the Obama Administration insisting that Catholics be forced to go against their long-cherished beliefs and dispense contraception, sterilization, etc., on demand? Imagine that.
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