For more than 300 years the liberal tradition has sought to free people from the tyranny of religious doctrines. Today's evangelical right detests that tradition and seeks nothing short of a state-sponsored religion. If we don't focus the public's attention on the larger ongoing assault on religious liberty, the evangelical right will whittle away these freedoms.

The issues of abortion, civil unions, creationism, school prayers, and sex education are all about imposing religious views on the body politic. However important religion is to our spiritual lives, there is no room for liberty in a theocracy.

--Flo Wineriter

Excerpts from an article written by Robert B. Reich in The Prospect magazine.