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This is how religious liberty dies: the new rules of the secular left

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Official portrait of Congressman (R-IN) (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) April 8, 2015 ( AlbertMohler.com ) -- The vast high-velocity moral revolution that is reshaping modern cultures at warp speed is leaving almost no aspect of the culture untouched and untransformed. The advocates of same-sex marriage and the more comprehensive goals of the LGBT movement assured the nation that nothing would be fundamentally changed if people of the same gender were allowed to marry one another. We knew that could not be true, and now the entire nation knows. The latest Ground Zero for the moral revolution is the state of Indiana , where legislators passed a state version of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act , which Gov. Mike Pence then signed into law. The controversy that followed was a free-for-all of misrepresentation and political posturing. Within days, the governor capitulated to the controversy by calling for a revision of the law — a revision that may well make the RFRA a force for ...