Joel Belz
Joel Belz is founder of WORLD magazine and God's World News children's magazines. He writes a bi-weekly column for WORLD, and is co-author of Whirled Views, a collection of columns, with Marvin Olasky.

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Supreme agreement

Christians can rejoice in the high court's unanimous wisdom in the Hosanna-Tabor case | by Joel Belz

It's admittedly hard to know where it may ultimately lead. But if you wanted a giant roadblock to slow down the scary intrusion of a nanny state into the lives of evangelical Christians, you had to holler "Hosanna!" when you learned about the Supreme Court's landmark religious liberty decision this past month.

Here's how I tried to describe it last week to a group of about 100 people at my church. "How many of you would object," I asked, "if a building official from the city showed up tomorrow, determined to check out the safety of the electrical and plumbing systems in our church building?" One diehard libertarian raised his hand, suggesting that even that was too great a concession of his American freedom. But the other 99 seemed to say that they could live with such a city inspector—and most of them suggested that's a small price to pay for safety.

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