Obama Starts to 'Nudge' the Country Away from Freedom of Religion

07-18-2010 • EconomicPolicyJournal.com

Any person of faith knows that religious exercise is about a lot more than freedom of worship. It's about the right to dress according to one's religious dictates, to preach openly, to evangelize, to engage in the public square. Everyone knows that religious Jews keep kosher, religious Quakers don't go to war, and religious Muslim women wear headscarves-yet "freedom of worship" would protect none of these acts of faith." It's possible to argue that this is an attempt to make a mountain out of a mole hill, but it is not so if viewed with the understanding that President Obama and his advisers have an obsession with attempting to "nudge" the country in certain directions. They know they can't blatantly institute the many changes they would like to see in America, so for them it is the nudge, a little change here, a small push a there and one day you wake up in an entire different country and wonder how it happened.