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They stand for coming out here on this lovely saturday evening. We are very pleased to have steve waldon to talk about his new book. Sacred liberty. It is about religious freedom and what steve calls in the subtitle, americas long, bloodied and ongoing struggle for that freedom. These days we tend to think of a religious freedom as a basic fundamental principle of our democracy and one we take very much for granted. But our countrys history as they recount in a fascinating history is filled with examples of religious prosecution. In just the opening pages of his book, he recall stories of ministers brutalizing baptist ministers around the time of the resolution, the American Revolution and later catholics and jews from holding office, the banning of native american spiritual practices, attempts to exterminate women and much more. All of which underscores and despite the First Amendment, the struggle to ensure religious freedom in the United States has indeed been challenging and compet

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