When Conscience Rights Come at the Cost of Human Rights

Evangelicals have done commendable work advancing religious freedom around the globe. But that work has involved some questionable moral compromises.
In 1998, President Bill Clinton signed the International Religious Freedom Act, authorizing the government to impose sanctions on nations violating religious liberty. The law created an Ambassador at Large for International Religious Freedom along with the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom. It enshrined religious liberty a