My heart says something else, however. It seems to me that people exercising religious cussedness have done more to roll back the state’s power to suppress individual freedom than any other group you can name. For many people religious conscience sows the first seeds of doubt about the goodness of the state. I know that one of the few interesting things about Catholicism in the aftermath of Roe v. Wade was having to take seriously the scary, thrilling idea that the United States government was complicit in a vast and horrible crime.
Tim Cavanaugh in Why Beholdest Thou the Mote That Is In Bart Stupak’s Eye?
