Foreword by Rick Santorum: They've Crossed the Line

Rick Santorum, former United States Senator and presidential candidate, provided the foreword for the new book, They've Crossed the Line: A Patriot's Guide to Religious Freedom, as follows:

Is it still safe to live out our Christian faith in an increasingly secularized and hostile society? Do we risk being punished at school or on the job if we dare to take a stand for Christ? Can we be forced to shut up and sit down when we try to speak for Jesus in the public square? What are our legal rights as American Christians in post-Christian America?

Stephen Bloom and Kerriel Bailey’s book, They’ve Crossed the Line: A Patriot’s Guide to Religious Freedom, provides concise easy-to-understand legal answers for the everyday religious freedom questions Christians face in their lives and communities. And there’s good news! In most cases, the law says, “Yes, you still have the right to be a Christian at school, at work, and everywhere else!”

Each chapter begins with a short fictional vignette drawn from real-life controversies and circumstances. The stories are engaging, but intentionally unresolved, setting the stage for the legal counsel to follow. The tone of the counsel is simple and direct, to connect with the non-attorney readers for whom the book is written. The relevant concepts are boiled down to plain English.

Mr. Bloom and Mrs. Bailey are legal scholars in the tradition of our founding fathers. Our nation’s founders knew the essential importance of religious liberty. The American Revolution was as much about liberty as it was about taxation. In 18th Century America the term “pursuit of happiness” meant the pursuit of the morally right. The free exercise of religion is that pursuit of happiness. Readers of this book will be encouraged and empowered to engage the culture as bold witnesses for their faith.

The book will embolden believers to break free from the false constraints of prevailing misconceptions. Misconceptions popularized and perpetuated by the anti-Christian secular Left and its allies in law, media, education, and entertainment that Christians are legally relegated to the status of passive observers on the sidelines of American life.

People of faith aren’t just allowed to participate vigorously in the public arena of our democracy, they are called to do so. Bloom and Bailey’s book will give them a clear path to participation.

Senator Rick Santorum
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Excerpt From: Stephen Bloom & Kerriel Bailey, “They've Crossed the Line.” Published by God & Country Press, an imprint of AMG Publishers, Inc. This material may be protected by copyright.