04/13/2009: Robert Greene speaks at Princeton Theological Seminary on the origins of free exercise principles in the colonial era
S&G principal Robert Greene delivered a lecture on the topic of the Church and State in the United States this evening to students at Princeton Theological Seminary. The talk addressed freedom of religion in the colonial era, discussing the theories of Roger Williams, William Penn and other colonial religious leaders on the religious grounds for opposing all attempts to compel religious conformity. It also discussed the current state of free exercise and Establishment Clause law, focusing on the various difficulties and opportunities in raising claims that government regulation substantially burdens religious exercise.