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Religious Freedom: Protecting the Good Religion Does

Women and Religion: Dignity, Equality, and Empowerment

To Help and Lift - How the Church of Jesus Christ Helps the Poor and Needy Become Self-Reliant

What Can a Lay Person Do to Protect Religious Freedom?

We have to be willing to sit by, listen to, and share with those who seem different from us.

“In the Marrow of Their Bones”: The Latter-day Saint Experience of Religion as Identity

“For tens of millions of Americans, faith and religious conviction are the most powerful and defining sources of personal and family identity in their lives.

The Human Dimension of Religious Freedom

The purpose of a society is to assist us in fulfilling the measure of our creation. The goal of religious freedom is the flowering of the God-given human potential in all of us.

Why Atheists (and Everyone Else) Should Support Freedom of Religion or Belief

"I see three major benefits to supporting freedom of religion or belief. First, religious freedom supports and strengthens the rule of law. Second, freedom of religion or belief is foundational to other fundamental and cherished freedoms. And third, religion or belief, freely exercised, promotes civic virtue and is vital to strong, flourishing communities."

The Importance of Religious Freedom

People of faith must be at the forefront in protecting religious freedom-a freedom from which many other essential freedoms emanate. Freedom of religion and freedom of speech are both the heart and the foundation of representative democracy. Freedom to believe in private and to exercise belief and speech in the public square are essential to protecting inalienable rights.

Defend Divinely Inspired Freedoms 2018

Women in Faith: A Freedom of Religion or Belief Perspective

Defend Divinely Inspired Freedoms

…people of faith must be at the forefront in protecting religious freedom—a freedom from which many other essential freedoms emanate. Freedom of religion and freedom of speech are both the heart and the foundation of representative democracy. Freedom to believe in private and to exercise belief and speech in the public square are essential to protecting inalienable rights.

Religious Freedom: The Foundational Freedom

Elder D. Todd Christofferson emphasizes the importance of religious freedom by expounding on the division of the powers of church and state, religious freedom and the rule of law, civic virtue, and other freedoms essential to our rights.

The Foundational Contribution of Religion to Society

"Religious freedom is a marker for other freedoms in society that temper the natural impulses that are counter to a prosperous, thriving, and progressing society."

The Divinely Designed Pattern of Marriage

One of the great tasks of our time — one on which our diverse faith communities should be united — is to help people understand the true meaning and purpose of marriage. 

The Crucible: The Atonement, Moral Agency, and the Law