The Philadelphia Inquirer

The Rev. Dr. Katharine Rhodes Henderson, interim president of Interfaith Alliance, said the 2018 interview and Mastriano’s more recent statements about God and religion demonstrate an unwillingness to balance his personal religious identity with his responsibility to serve constituents with different beliefs.

Religious freedom, enshrined in the First Amendment, is essential to ensure that American democracy can thrive. But instead of safeguarding our national diversity, the religious right has sought to distort the meaning of religious freedom to codify their beliefs into law and favor a very narrow worldview.