A "contentious issue" discussed in a "non-contentious manner." These are the words of WPR's "At Issue" host Ben Merens in introducing the topic approached by Dennis Goldford live on the air yesterday. Goldford, whose new book The Constitution of Religious Freedom: God, Politics, and the First Amendment will release in March, spoke for an hour on "At Issue" in response to a recent New York Times op-ed on political compromise.

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