Benne Center Fall Lecture: Warping Religious Liberty in America
- Date:
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Tuesday, October 1, 2024
- Time:
- 7 - 8 p.m.
- Location:
Wortmann Ballroom
Join Dr. Bruce Frohnen, professor of law at Ohio Northern University, for an analysis of the Supreme Court's role in warping the law—and history—to turn religious liberty from a right of the people to join together for religious activities into a "right" of an individual to express his/her religious beliefs.
Wortmann Ballroom
Teresa Gereaux, gereaux@roanoke.edu false MM/DD/YYYYJoin Dr. Bruce Frohnen, professor of law for Ohio Northern University, in an examination of religious liberty's intrinsic communitarianism. In his address, Dr. Frohnen will analyze the Supreme Court's role in warping the law—and history—to turn religious liberty from a right of the people to join together for religious activities into a "right" of an individual to express his/her religious beliefs.
In the process, the changing tide has stripped us of the benefits and protections once gained from religious affiliations in the form of meaningful religious activities and protections from state actions.
Dr. Frohnen's lecture, "Warping Religious Liberty in America," is free and open to the public. The event is a program of the Benne Center for Church & Society.
Dr. Frohnen, who joined Ohio Northern University in 2008, writes and speaks extensively in the areas of public law and constitutionalism. He has served as legislative aide to a U.S. senator, visiting scholar at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, and secretary and director of program at the Earhart Foundation.
He's published over 100 articles, essays, chapters and reviews in journals that include the George Washington Law Review and Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy. Dr. Frohnen's co-edited volume, "American Conservatism: An Encyclopedia," was the subject of a front-page article in The New York Times.