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Templeton Op-Ed Warns: Freedom to Preach Is at Risk
Today's Pittsburgh Post Gazette includes an op-ed by John M. Templeton, Jr., M.D., a member of the Becket Fund's Board of Advisors and the winner of the Canterbury Medal Award for 2006.
In the United States, religious freedom is the first of our freedoms, and the freedom to preach is very nearly at the core of religious freedom.
So how could it possibly be at risk? In short, when the preaching opposes homosexual conduct or same-sex marriage, prosecutors and courts are much less inclined to protect it. The freedom to preach has already been seriously eroded abroad on this basis, and trends in America are discouraging.
The full text of the op-ed is available here.