I'm Shane Morris.

Thanks for listening to the Breakpoint podcast.

Religion is not just one lifestyle choice among many, not at least according to the U.S. Constitution.

In fact, as Princeton's Dr. Robert George tells John Stone Street on today's Breakpoint podcast,

in our constitutional tradition, religion is singled out for special care.

It isn't a variant of freedom, generally.

Our founding fathers, those who bequeathed to us this great constitutional government,

understood that religion has to do with conscience.

So, at a time when so many Americans, not to mention our lawmakers and local officials,

fail to understand religion's

privileged status under the Constitution, Christians must be especially vigilant to protect our

religious freedoms, even as we make sacrifices during the current pandemic.

Here are John Stone Street and Dr. Robert George, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence,

and Director of the James Madison Program

in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University.

Well, welcome to the Breakpoint Podcast. It's always an honor and a privilege when I can have

Professor Robert P. George, the one and only, one of the great constitutional scholars of our day, as well as a great

expert on religious freedom. And I just want to talk about today, Professor George, just all

kinds of issues surrounding religious freedom and civil liberties and government overreach and

all the things that some of us are beginning to notice after kind of doing our

duty and staying home during the pandemic. What does this mean going forward? But before I go there,

I think I speak for all of America when I say thank you for the Daily Banjo Minute on Twitter

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