Hatch Speaks on Faith and Public Life in Fourth Religious Liberty Address (US Senate Committee ...

(Source: US Senate Committee on Judiciary) WASHINGTON-Senator Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, took to the Senate Floor to deliver the fourth in a series of speeches on religious liberty this afternoon. Senator Hatch has previously delivered speeches on the basic principles, the history, and on the status and substance of religious liberty. Today's speech focused on the proper relationship between faith and public life. Despite the hard-fought progress in recent years both in protecting religious liberty and in restoring sanity to the courts' approach to the Establishment Clause, this notion of strict separation continues to exert a pernicious influence, shrinking the sphere of acceptable religious...