EPISODE 7: RELIGIOUS LIBERTY AND THE AMERICAN IDENTITY

The week before Christmas 2025, Vivek Ramaswamy penned an article in the New York Times describing the United States as a classless society, as a credal society. We all live in privity of the Founding Generation who, by ratifying the Constitution as the governing document of the Declaration of Independence, agreed on behalf of themselves, and the citizens of their respective states, that we were all free to pursue happiness in our respective faiths and raise our children in our faiths, and that our neighbors had the same rights. Yet, beginning with the Catholics, and then the Mormons, this has always been a challenge, particularly with the institution of marriage.