I’m a great fan of two remarkable organizations headquartered on the campus of Brigham Young University: the Wheatley Institution and the International Center for Law and Religion Studies (ICLRS). In the areas that interest me, they are, nowadays, far and away the most intellectually interesting and adventurous operations here.
ICLRS is in the midst of putting on its “Religious Freedom Annual Review.”
I was involved in a wedding at the Mount Timpanogos Utah Temple today, and with the subsequent luncheon (and the reception tonight), so I only managed to attend two of the conference sessions. But they were superb. (So was the wedding!)
I highly recommend the remarks of Senator Jeff Flake (R-AZ) from this morning. They were very personal and heartfelt at times, referencing (for example) his opposition to Mr. Trump’s campaign proposal to ban Muslim immigration and his experience as one of the targets of the recent attack on the Republican congressional baseball team in the Virginia suburbs of DC.
I also caught the excellent panel at the end of the day on current questions of religious liberty. I must say — especially in view of some very unsatisfying exchanges with critics over the past few days on religious freedom and LGBTQIA issues — that it’s refreshing and satisfying to listen to intellectually serious comments on the subject.
I know that these sessions were videotaped. When I can, I’ll post links to them.
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