Risk to Religious Liberty Recognized

Last week I highlighted in a blog that defense of religious liberty is currently a priority of the LDS church.

Two headlines this past week relating to threats to religious liberty are worthy of your investigation:

Religious Liberty: The Latest Target of Obamacare by Grace-Marie Turner at National Review Online:

"The Obama administration announced today it will wait for a year (coincidentally until after the elections) before requiring religious organizations to comply with an Obamacare mandate that they provide coverage for contraception —including controversial drugs that can abort an early pregnancy". (full article)

Bishop Burton Joins Leaders to Promote Religious Freedom and Marriage by the LDS Public Affairs on their website:

"Last Thursday, Presiding Bishop of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, H. David Burton, joined 38 prominent leaders of different faiths in signing a letter advocating traditional marriage and religious freedom". (read letter)

Are so many of our religious institutions imagining a looming threat to free practice of religion, or is religious liberty truly put at risk by recent legislation and political agendas? You be the judge.