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In the twenty-first century, freedom in America is controversial. In this regard, not much has changed from the late eighteenth century, a time when Americans fought and won political freedom from Great Britain, only to argue over the meaning of freedom within the new nation.
Yet from the freedom struggle of the Revolutionary era emerged the world’s first nation committed to religious liberty for all and separation of church and state, as enshrined in the First Amendment of the United States Constitution.
America’s historical commitment to freedom, however, has taken an unexpected turn in modern America. In short, the closing decades of the twentieth century to the present have witnessed an intense effort, spearheaded by many conservative and fundamentalist Christians, to discard our nation’s heritage of church state separation in favor of government favoritism of certain expressions of faith, and hence a curtailing of religious freedom for all.
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