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August 10, 2012

Wash. Post: Opinion: In an America with so many religions, what does religious freedom mean?

by Michelle Boorstein
The Washington Post

In the United States, Muslim women trying to maintain modesty should get female-only hours at the public pool, right? What about Wiccan troops who want a chaplain of their own, even if there are only a few thousand of them in the military? And Catholic business owners who believe that contraception is killing - should they have to provide it to employees, now that the health-care law requires that workers get it?

The debate over whether religious freedom is being threatened seems to have hit an apex, with the Catholic Church launching its biggest campaign in a generation against the contraception mandate. Even the presidential campaign is mixing it up; Mitt Romney's latest ad asks, "When religious freedom is threatened, who do you want to stand with?"

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