It’s vital that we get the Religious Freedom Restoration Act back to its original purpose and make it clear that the legislation should never be used to exempt anyone from laws that protect other people’s basic civil rights. 

The Jan. 6 assault exposed the violent extremists among us who were willing to overturn the vote of the people in an effort to keep Trump in office after he lost an election. They are fundamentally anti-democratic, and they must be held to account.

To believe that antifa, BLM or other 'outside agitators' infiltrated the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol, you have to engage in a series of mental gymnastics so strenuous they should cause brain strain.

Vouchers violate fundamental principles of religious freedom by forcing taxpayers to support religious education. Vouchers also weaken our public schools and communities by diverting resources away from the schools that serve all students regardless of race, ability, or religion to fund the education of a few, select students at private, religious schools.

We need to take advantage of the next four years – and particularly the next two, after which a Congress supportive of expanding civil rights protections is not guaranteed – to pass legislation whose impact will last far longer than the four-year-long Biden administration.

Balmer offers just what we need right now: an unapologetic, full-throated defense of separation of church and state as the best vehicle to protect and promote religious freedom in America.

Evangelical pollster George Barna is bothered that millions of Americans, including many Christians who voted for President Joe Biden, aren’t fundamentalists like him.

A new poll shows that most Americans are skeptical of granting broad rights to discriminate based on religious views.