First Things RSS Feed - Richard F. Duncan https://www.firstthings.com/author/richard-f-duncan en-us Copyright 2025 First Things. All Rights Reserved. ft@firstthings.com (The Editors) ft@firstthings.com (The Editors) Mon, 20 Jan 2025 16:55:16 -0500 https://d2201k5v4hmrsv.cloudfront.net/img/favicon-196.png First Things RSS Feed Image https://www.firstthings.com/rss/author/richard-f-duncan 60 Religious Freedom Denied https://www.firstthings.com/article/1990/08/religious-freedom-denied https://www.firstthings.com/article/1990/08/religious-freedom-denied Wed, 01 Aug 1990 00:00:00 -0400 Imagine a country in which religious freedom is trammeled, and another country in which religious freedom is flourishing. Imagine a multitude of religious refugees fleeing the former nation and flocking to the latter. Until quite recently, most Americans would probably have been inclined in such a scenario to cast some East Bloc country (say East Germany) in the role of persecutor and the United States as the beacon of religious freedom. But in the wake of developments in Eastern Europe and the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision in the Oregon peyote case, an argument could be made that the roles in our little melodrama should be reversed.

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