Americans United President and CEO Rachel Laser addressed some of the church-state issues raised by the pandemic in a Religion News Service column that was published Friday.

Americans United has explained repeatedly that religious freedom gives the right to believe whatever you want about religion, but it does not give one person the right to cause harm to another or take away their rights

Contrary to popular belief, nothing in the U.S. Constitution requires officeholders to take an oath of office on the Bible -- or any other book, for that matter.