First Amendment: The administration seeks new power over hiring and firing at religious institutions. This is more than just a culture-war skirmish. It's a threat to liberty. Americans constantly hear warnings about the threats posed by the religious right to the separation of church and state. Like prayers at high school football games, these usually turn out to be trivial or symbolic, and no threat at all. Much less is said about encroachments from the political left. These are more dangerous, both to religious institutions and to civil society in general. When government can make the rules for communities of...
