God, Law, and the Cult of Power

Marci Hamilton on what it will take to restore the rule of law in an era of authoritarian religion

The First Amendment gives you an absolute right to believe whatever you want. It has never given you the right to act on those beliefs in ways that harm others. That distinction, simple as it sounds, is the one that the religious right has spent decades trying to erase, and it is the distinction that Professor Marci A. Hamilton has spent her entire care…