USA Today: Opinion: When COVID-19 and religious freedom intersect
UC's Andrew Lewis writes national opinion piece on religious freedoms during the pandemic
Andrew Lewis, a University of Cincinnati associate professor of political science, and co-author Asma Uddin, contend that “religious freedom has been consumed by tribal warfare” in a USA Today opinion piece on the pandemic and partisan politics.
In the article, the authors state that “numerous surveys find that religious freedom, while popular, has become associated with partisan politics,” specifically pointing to the Supreme Court's recent ruling against COVID-19 restrictions imposed by New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo on religious services.
Lewis is a politics and religion expert and the author of “The Rights Turn in Conservative Christian Politics: How Abortion Transformed the Culture Wars.”
Read the entire USA Today article.
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