Donald Trump talked a good game on religious liberty four years ago. “We don’t punish prayer. We don’t tear down crosses. We don’t ban symbols of faith. We don’t muzzle preachers and pastors,” he said in his 2020 State of the Union address. “In America, we celebrate faith, we cherish religion, we lift our voices in prayer, and we raise our sights to the Glory of God.”
Yet as a federal judge recently observed: “Time and again the First Amendment rights of American citizens have been the subject of litigation. . . . Organizations must continually sue to keep the federal government from infringing on basic and well-settled rights to freedom of religion.” As Mr. Trump assumes office, he can change the status quo with a simple action: He can announce that Washington will stop discriminating against religion.
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