Pillar III
Freedom
Freedom is not the bare ability to choose, but the capacity to seek truth and to live in accordance with it. Religious liberty and the freedom of conscience are first among civic goods, because without them no other freedom is honestly possible.
In keeping silent about evil, in burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the surface, we are implanting it, and it will rise up a thousand-fold in the future.
We oppose every regime — political or cultural — which seeks to censor the contributions of faith from the public square, and we stand with all who suffer for conscience's sake.
What This Asks of Us
To defend freedom is to defend the institutions — churches, schools, charities, families — through which conscience is formed and lived. We stand for a public square genuinely open to religious witness.