The Use and Abuse of Religious Freedom

When people are prohibited from practicing their religion – for example, by laws that bar worshipping in certain ways – there can be no doubt that their freedom of religion has been violated. But many, if not most, appeals to religious freedom nowadays do not satisfy that test.

MELBOURNE – What are the proper limits of religious freedom? Marianne Thieme, leader of the Party for the Animals in the Netherlands, offers this answer: “Religious freedom stops where human or animal suffering begins.”

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