Joyful Noise: Religious Freedom Restoration
by Anne Schlafly, Chairman, Eagle Forum
It is time to reclaim our religious freedoms in the public arena! Freedom, including our freedom to worship, is the very heartbeat of America. For the last fifty years, court rulings have placed strict restrictions on the practice of religion. The judiciary had a hostility to religious expression, using the misconception that the state and church were required to be separated.
In 1971, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled in Lemon v. Kurtzman that public monies could not be used in religious schools, which had the effect of stopping prayer in public schools. The three-prong “Lemon Test” stipulated that any law must:
Have a secular, non-religious purpose.
Its primary effect must not advance or inhibit religion.
It must not create excessive entanglement between the government and religion.
We have reaped the whirlwind of the last fifty years when our government removed God from the public square. The result of the courts’ cancelling the public expression of faith has been fifty years of worshiping the state instead of worshiping God.
https://eagleforum.org/publications/efr/nov2025/joyful-noise-religious-freedom-restoration.html
