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Dear Friend,
For the past several months, The Washington Post has been talking with me about a chapter of The Rutherford Institute’s history that stretches back more than four decades: our role in helping to launch what became the modern religious freedom legal movement in America.
Today, the Post published its profile: “Why a lawyer who launched the Christian legal movement believes it’s gone astray.”
It is a complicated story—and an important one.
When we began this work, the principle was simple: religious freedom belongs to everyone.
It belongs to Christians, Muslims, Jews, atheists and people of every faith and no faith at all.
It cannot depend on which political party is in power, which religion is culturally dominant, or whether we agree with the person whose rights are being threatened.
That principle has guided The Rutherford Institute through decades of cases defending people across the religious and political spectrum.
Over time, however, parts of the religious liberty movement have become increasingly entangled with partisan politics, Christian nationalism and the pursuit of government power.
That is not religious freedom.
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