Editor’s Note: I want to thank again those who have responded to our current fundraising drive celebrating the fifth anniversary of the creation of The Catholic Thing. As I’ve been saying these first days of the drive, we need all of you to help us any way you can, no donation too small – or big. We need some bigger donations this year for multiple reasons, and I have to ask anyone who can to please step up and make a more generous gesture than usual.
It is a truism among legal scholars that the jurisprudence of religious liberty has long been a near-hopeless mess.