• Separation, Accommodation and the Future of Church and State
  • Elder Dallin H. Oaks
  • DePaul Law Review Volume 35, Issue 1, Fall 1985, Article 2

By any measure, the weight of government regulation of churches and religious activities is increasing. Dean Kelly has observed that “only now are we beginning to recognize that government intervention in religious affairs is the largest, most nebulous, pervasive, and portentous religious-freedom issue of our day.”  Kelly gives more than a dozen illustrations. Whatever the merit of any individual example, the trend is evident and ominous.