Values Voter Summit, one of the marquee annual events of the conservative movement, starts Friday at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in the District of Columbia. The top issue on the agenda, highlighted in the recent Republican presidential debates, is religious liberty.

Today, religious liberty is under attack in America like never before. Each year, Liberty Institute publishes a survey titled “Undeniable,” cataloging incidents of religious hostility in America (LibertyInstitute.org/pages/survey-of-religious-hostilities). Since we started conducting the annual survey three years ago, we have seen an astonishing 133 percent increase in attacks on religious freedom over the past two years.

Cases include everything from a 5-year-old girl who was ordered to stop praying over her meal by a school official to senior citizens being threatened with having their federally funded meals taken away because they were praying over their food. Government officials insisted the seniors’ prayers would violate “separation of church and state.”

Liberty Institute published the latest “Undeniable” survey before the Supreme Court marriage decision in Obergefell v. Hodges. Since Obergefell, the institute has seen an extraordinary 400 percent increase in requests for legal help. We anticipate next year’s survey will reveal another tremendous hike in attacks nationwide.

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Source: Kelly Shackelford, http://www.washingtontimes.com