700. Coming Challenges to Religious Liberty: What’s on the Horizon?
Coming Challenges to Religious Liberty: What’s on the Horizon? By Maurine Jensen Proctor · September 13, 2016 This is an extremely important article that we hope you will share broadly. This article is based on Alexander Dusku’s talk of the same title from BYU Education Week. If there was an underlying theme to this year’s BYU Education Week—appearing again and again in talks–it was about threats to our religious freedom with LDS Public Affairs sponsoring 18 presentations on the subject. It was as if we didn’t get it the first time, we’d have multiple opportunities to be awakened—and alarmed. “Do you get it?” “Do you get it now?” This is not an area we can be in the least bit casual or think that it is somebody else’s problem or refuse to take the time to learn about. Alexander Dushku, an attorney for Kirton & McConkie that represents the Church in most of its legal affairs, said that there is a planetary clash—like two large bodies s