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Article: Is U.S. religious freedom eroding?
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- Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
- Article date:
- January 16, 2008
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They are heroes in a battle most Americans think has already been
won. Tonight, they are to be honored for their contributions to
strengthening religious freedom at home and abroad.
Although the U.S. is home to the greatest experiment in religious
freedom ever, and the great majority of Americans support that
principle, surprising gaps in knowledge and understanding remain
when it comes to practicing that freedom. And support for it seems
to rise and fall.
Only a slim majority (56 percent) of Americans said in a 2007
survey that freedom of worship should extend to people of all
religious groups, no matter what their beliefs (down 16 points from
72 percent in 2000).
"A great many Americans ...