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Jeff Sessions' Justice Department Promotes Religious Right’s Take On Religious Liberty

On Monday, Attorney General Jeff Sessions hosted a “Religious Liberty Summit” in the Great Hall of the Justice Department, the latest action by the Trump administration to align the federal government with the Religious Right’s interpretation of religious liberty.

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Meet Marco Rubio's 'Religious Liberty Advisory Board'

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Becket Fund Pretends It's Not Fighting The Culture Wars

Politico is up with a profile of the Becket Fund, one of the Religious Right legal groups that has pushed, via Hobby Lobby and related cases, to expand the definition of “religious liberty” to allow corporations and individuals as well as religious institutions to opt out of laws they say violate th