This religious-freedom tack has been an interesting one to watch, as LDS voices have tried to re-frame themselves as persecuted instead of persecutors (I'm thinking specifically of the gay-marriage debates).
I am just as eager as anyone to preserve religious freedom in this country. However, I find most of the examples of infringement on religious freedom to be unconvincing:
http://www.mormonnewsroom.org/offici...igious-freedom
http://www.ldsmag.com/1-ac-1/article/10921
http://www.religiousfreedom.org/about_us/
http://blogs.uvu.edu/newsroom/2013/0...-noah-feldman/
Having visited places in the world where there really is a lack of religious freedom (with occasional deadly consequences), I am perhaps not as sympathetic as I should be to the plight of (what appears to me to be barely more than) American religionists
catching some negative publicity for their religious views. But I'm open to correction.
I realize that many of the arguments go back (erroneously, IMO) to the views of the Framers of the US Constitution. Thse Founding Fathers arguments are tough for me to swallow, since the Framers of the Constitution never envisioned anything like Medicare, Income Tax, or Women's Suffrage. Notions of "Freedom" change over time. This has generally been a good thing in this country.
Maybe some of the lawyers on the board can inform & convince me why religious freedom in the USA is
"imperiled".