Who should we blame for gay ‘marriage’? It’s not who you think
January 6, 2014 ( Public Discourse ) - Last November marked the twentieth anniversary of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act . At an event hosted by the Newseum and the Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty , RFRA’s champions shared stories of how the statute came into being and the long odds it had to overcome. Though no one was resting on his or her laurels, there was a general sense of a job well-done. And then Douglas Laycock , one of the primary architects of RFRA, began to speak. He warned that millions of Americans view religious liberty as their enemy because they resent religion’s interference in their sex lives. Even though RFRA is a “super statute,” it will offer religious believers little protection if the nation turns against religious liberty. Statutes can be repealed. Courts can empty them of their meaning. Laycock’s warning may seem overwrought, but consider just a few news items. In New Mexico, multiple organs of state government have said that a