President Obama on Friday announced what he termed an “accommodation” of religious employers: the mandate to provide abortifacient drugs, sterilization and contraception would remain in place — but insurers will be required to provide them for “free.” The decision has been called everything from a compromise to capitulation — but in truth the president didn’t retreat one inch.

Gagging Grenell was a bad play for the Romney team because it guaranteed the issue wouldn't go away. The only way to dispel concerns about the man's fitness for the job was to let him do his job. Muzzling him until he resigned was the worst possible way to handle it because all it did was feed crocodiles like Fischer.

The Supreme Court will hear a case on Monday that has the potential to strike a ferocious blow for, or against, religious liberty on university campuses.

For as long as the United Statescontinues to glossover Pakistan's failure to move quickly on reforms, it is making a mistake.

Americans are more religious than Europeans; hence, our elections are more infused with religious themes.

Americans are more religious than Europeans; hence, our elections are more infused with religious themes.

What is religious freedom, and how does Islam deal with it?

It’s going to be bait and switch for as far as the eye can see. That’s how it looks now that the smoke has cleared after the recent “Mommy War” skirmish over Democratic operative Hilary Rosen’s comment that mother of five Ann Romney had “never worked a day in her life.”