New 400-page report documents ‘massive’ increase in attacks on religious liberty

Sep 22, 2017 by Jill

by Peter La Barbera, LifeSite:

Attacks on religious liberty increased dramatically in 2016 according to a report on hostility toward the exercise of faith in the United States, rising to 1,400 documented attacks on religious freedom since the report first started chronicling them in 2011.

The annual report, “Undeniable: The Survey of Hostility to Religion in America,” indicates a 15 percent increase in anti-religious liberty cases in the past year compared with the previous year. It was released Tuesday by First Liberty Institute, which defends the First Amendment rights of Americans to live out their faith without reprisals from the government.

The annual report, now 418 pages, is cumulative, but First Liberty reported that attacks on religious liberty increased “massively” in 2016.

“We are in a battle for the future of the country right now,” said First Liberty CEO and chief counsel Kelly Shackelford in a Facebook Live broadcast about Undeniable. “There’s a real battle over religious freedom. You try to pass a law [protecting] religious freedom in any state and it would be very difficult because there’s so much controversy now over religious freedom, which is amazing.”

The book is available free from First Liberty Institute as a downloadable PDF or as a hard-cover book to those who request it. The following are some of the cases (many familiar to LifeSiteNews readers) described in the book:

Read here