FREEDOM GAINED INCH BY INCH: Family Research Council (FRC) chief Tony Perkins spent most of last week in Israel, a visit that inspired a Washington Stand meditation on underlying principle for both those Oklahomans who asked the U.S. Supreme Court to allow a digital Catholic school to receive public funding and the prayers of a Jewish rabbi on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.

“Religious freedom is seldom handed to the passive; it is claimed by those who exercise it even when a hostile culture says they may not. That reality came home to me this week as two very different arenas — Jerusalem’s Temple Mount and the marble halls of the U.S. Supreme Court. In both instances, they posed the same enduring question: Will people of faith fight for the liberties our Creator endowed, or will they surrender them to bureaucrats and bullies,” Perkins asked.

Read the whole column as it poses something worthy of extended contemplation by liberty-minded religious and non-religious folks alike.