BJC: Supreme Court nominee should protect our first freedom — religious liberty

At…[Monday’s] White House announcement of her nomination to succeed Associate Justice John Paul Stevens on the U.S. Supreme Court, U.S. Solicitor General Elena Kagan said, “law matters. . . it keeps us safe . . . it protects our most fundamental rights and freedoms.”

The Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty hopes the nominee, if confirmed, will protect our most fundamental freedom ”” religious freedom ”” with a commitment to principles of both no establishment and free exercise embodied in our “first freedom.”

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