Pruitt: Religious Freedoms Remain At Risk
Attorney General Scott Pruitt tells Tulsa group that religious freedom at risk in U.S.
By BILL SHERMAN World Religion Writer
Religious freedom in the United States is under attack, Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt said Wednesday.
“I’m very concerned. I cut my teeth on religious liberty issues,” Pruitt said during the Oilfield Christian Fellowship’s 10th anniversary celebration at First Baptist Church in downtown Tulsa.
Pruitt made a distinction between what he called the free exercise of religion and freedom of worship. People in China have the freedom to worship, he said, but the government licenses and oversees their churches.
“There are individuals in leadership today, both in the political sphere and in the courts, who believe you do not have the free exercise of religion, you have freedom of worship,” he said.
Those people believe the First Amendment applies only to what happens inside the walls of a church, he said.