http://thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/justintaylor/2012/01/11/the-most-important-supreme-court-ruling-on-religion-in-20-years/
"This is a huge win for religious liberty."
--Douglas Laycock, University of Virginia Law School
"It is not just a spectacular win on multiple issues and with multiple (indeed, all) justices on board, but it's the Court's sweeping language that is so important...The words of the various justices' opinions ring out like a liberty bell for religious freedom."
--Carl Esbeck, University of Missouri, Law professor
Finally, a word on religious liberty from a Baptist, written to King James I of England in 1612. He was imprisoned for writing it.
"The King is a mortal man, and not God, therefore he hath no power over the mortal soul of his subjects to make laws and ordinances for them and to set spiritual lords over them...If the king's people be obedient and true subjects, obeying all humane laws made by the King, our Lord and King can require no more: for men's religion to God is betwixt God and themselves; the King shall not answer for it, neither may the King be judge between God and man."
--Thomas Helwys, 1612 (English Baptist), A Short Declaration of the Mystery of Iniquity
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