Brent Walker's 25 Years in D.C.

The religious-liberty landscape is definitely different. In some ways, religious liberty is in rockier territory than it was when I started. In other ways, itâ??s on more fertile soil. I think we have lost ground when it comes to constitutional protection against the establishment of religion, such as state-sponsored religious exercises and government-funded church ministries and religious education. We have been up and down concerning protections for the free exercise of religion, losing ground as a matter of constitutional interpretation but gaining through legislation supported by the BJC, such as the Religious Freedom Restoration Act in 1993 and the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act in 2000.