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The A.I. bias rating includes policy and politician portrayal leanings based on the author’s tone found in the article using machine learning. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral.
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"Congress -- and the states, via the 14th Amendment's application of the First Amendment against them -- lacks legitimate authority to regulate any aspect of religious worship, including by whom, how, where, and when it is performed." | Positive | 22% Conservative |
"Conservatives also note that the First Amendment declares that Congress shall make no law ... prohibiting the free exercise of religion." | Positive | 18% Conservative |
"The First Amendment, moreover, prohibits the establishment of religion, which Thomas Jefferson said erects a wall of separation between church and state." | Positive | 16% Conservative |
"James Madison, the most philosophically articulate Founder on religious freedom, stated the matter most clearly." | Positive | 10% Conservative |
"We have a political right to religious liberty because we have more sacred and sovereign duties to God." | Positive | 8% Conservative |
"Most exemption litigation today falls under the 1993 Religious Freedom Restoration Act, not the First Amendment." | Positive | 8% Conservative |
"The Founders had a different understanding, at least when it came to natural rights such as religious liberty." | Positive | 6% Conservative |
"The Founders understood the inalienable natural rights of religious liberty only to require the state to remain within its proper sphere." | Positive | 6% Conservative |
"But the categorical character of religious liberty also means that its scope is relatively narrow." | Positive | 4% Conservative |
"Freedom from religion and the freedom to practice one's religion are, in fact, both aspects of the Founders' understanding of our inalienable natural right of religious liberty." | Positive | 2% Conservative |
"The natural right to religious liberty, in other words, is not granted by government; it is a part of the natural fabric of the created moral order, an order in which rights and duties are reciprocal." | Positive | 0% Conservative |
"The meaning of religious freedom remains one of the more contested areas of our constitutional politics." | Negative | -2% Liberal |
"The Establishment Clause and the Free Exercise Clause together articulate the limits on government authority needed to safeguard individuals' natural right to religious liberty." | Negative | -2% Liberal |
"The Founders, again, would have held a narrower view of the rights of religious liberty, at least at the level of natural rights." | Negative | -2% Liberal |
"Does the Founders' Constitution offer a coherent understanding of religious liberty, one that we might recur to today in our religiously and morally pluralistic nation?" | Negative | -4% Liberal |
"For the Founders, then, the right of religious liberty imposes limits on the state's authority." | Negative | -4% Liberal |
"Many social conservatives understand the right of religious liberty to mean a right of religious individuals and institutions to be exempt from laws that burden their religious beliefs or commitments." | Negative | -6% Liberal |
"Conservatives would have to accept that religious freedom means only that government caot impose targeted disabilities on religion -- not that one is entitled to exemptions from otherwise valid laws." | Negative | -6% Liberal |
"Nonetheless, social conservatives' basic argument remains the same: religious liberty means that individuals ought to be exempt from otherwise valid but religiously burdensome laws." | Negative | -12% Liberal |
"Perhaps the Founders' more modest approach to religious liberty would satisfy no one." | Negative | -16% Liberal |
"This absence of jurisdiction that prohibits regulation of worship as such is also why the Founders said government caot establish a religion." | Negative | -20% Liberal |
"The locus of such arguments today is LGBT+ non-discrimination laws, which many traditional and orthodox Jews, Christians, and Muslims find impossible to comply with fully." | Negative | -20% Liberal |
"With President Joe Biden's recent tweet that transgender equality is the civil rights issue of our time, the conflict between these competing views of religious liberty will only be amplified." | Negative | -52% Liberal |
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Contributing sentiments towards policy:
61% : Congress -- and the states, via the 14th Amendment's application of the First Amendment against them -- lacks legitimate authority to regulate any aspect of religious worship, including by whom, how, where, and when it is performed.59% : Conservatives also note that the First Amendment declares that Congress "shall make no law ... prohibiting the free exercise" of religion.
58% : The First Amendment, moreover, prohibits the establishment of religion, which Thomas Jefferson said erects a "wall of separation" between church and state.
55% : James Madison, the most philosophically articulate Founder on religious freedom, stated the matter most clearly.
54% : We have a political right to religious liberty because we have more sacred and sovereign duties to God.
54% : Most exemption litigation today falls under the 1993 Religious Freedom Restoration Act, not the First Amendment.
53% : The Founders had a different understanding, at least when it came to "natural rights" such as religious liberty.
53% : The Founders understood the inalienable natural rights of religious liberty only to require the state to remain within its proper sphere.
52% : But the categorical character of religious liberty also means that its scope is relatively narrow.
51% : Freedom from religion and the freedom to practice one's religion are, in fact, both aspects of the Founders' understanding of our inalienable natural right of religious liberty.
50% : The natural right to religious liberty, in other words, is not granted by government; it is a part of the natural fabric of the created moral order, an order in which rights and duties are reciprocal.
49% : The meaning of religious freedom remains one of the more contested areas of our constitutional politics.
49% : The Establishment Clause and the Free Exercise Clause together articulate the limits on government authority needed to safeguard individuals' natural right to religious liberty.
49% : The Founders, again, would have held a narrower view of the rights of religious liberty, at least at the level of natural rights.
48% : Does the Founders' Constitution offer a coherent understanding of religious liberty, one that we might recur to today in our religiously and morally pluralistic nation?
48% : For the Founders, then, the right of religious liberty imposes limits on the state's authority.
47% : Many social conservatives understand the right of religious liberty to mean a right of religious individuals and institutions to be exempt from laws that burden their religious beliefs or commitments.
47% : Conservatives would have to accept that religious freedom means only that government cannot impose targeted disabilities on religion -- not that one is entitled to exemptions from otherwise valid laws.
44% : Nonetheless, social conservatives' basic argument remains the same: religious liberty means that individuals ought to be exempt from otherwise valid but religiously burdensome laws.
42% : Perhaps the Founders' more modest approach to religious liberty would satisfy no one.
40% : This absence of jurisdiction that prohibits regulation of worship as such is also why the Founders said government cannot establish a religion.
40% : The locus of such arguments today is LGBT+ non-discrimination laws, which many traditional and orthodox Jews, Christians, and Muslims find impossible to comply with fully.
24% : With President Joe Biden's recent tweet that transgender equality is the "civil rights issue of our time," the conflict between these competing views of religious liberty will only be amplified.
*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.