@article {1381783, title = {Are Rights and Religion Orthogonal?}, journal = {Carr Center Discussion Paper Series}, year = {2020}, abstract = {

Talking about {\textquotedblleft}rights{\textquotedblright} is to talk about a fundamental cornerstone of our democracy, our system of law, our ethics, and{\textemdash}perhaps most deeply{\textemdash}our identity.

One of the rights we Americans customarily consider ours is {\textquotedblleft}our right to religious freedom,{\textquotedblright} which, as enshrined in the First Amendment, is not one but two important correlate rights{\textendash} our individual right to worship (or not) as we please, and our collective right (and duty) to prohibit any sort of government favoritism toward (or disfavoring of) any organized religion.

In his paper, author Richard Parker weaves the history and evolution of religious freedom into the context of human rights.\ \ 

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}, url = {https://carrcenter.hks.harvard.edu/files/cchr/files/parker_03.pdf?m=1606938155}, author = {Richard Parker} }