America Was Never Supposed to Be Secular or Anti-Religion

Last week the Supreme Court of the United States handed Americans an important victory for religious freedom. In the case of Carson v. Makin, Chief Justice John Roberts wrote that "to exclude religious persons from the enjoyment of public benefits on the basis of their anticipated religious use of [those] benefits" is a violation of the First Amendment. "The State's antiestablishment interest[s]," he said, "do not justify enactments that exclude some members of the community from an otherwise generally available public benefit because of their religious exercise."