Religious Liberty Is a Secular Liberal Value

Date

2015

Citation

Douglas Laycock, Religious Liberty Is a Secular Liberal Value, in Free to Serve: Protecting the Religious Freedom of Faith-Based Organizations, Brazos Press, 160–163 (2015).

UVA Law Faculty Affiliations

Douglas Laycock

Constitutional Law and Legal History

Center for the First Amendment

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