Religious freedom rhetoric means privilege for one sanctioned creed

Evidence

At this point, it would have been apparent to any listener that the agenda of Project Blitz had nothing to do with religious freedom in the proper sense of the term. The point of Kurtz’s Christian army was quite palpably to fight on behalf of conservative Christians who wish to discriminate against those who do not share their beliefs. By “religious freedom,” participants simply meant privilege for those with the right religion. — Katherine Stewart, The Power Worshippers, 659

Categorization

• DEFINE: Restates the operative insider meaning of ‘religious freedom’ as opposed to its public meaning — the whole chapter’s key semantic disclosure.
• recurring: this claim recurs 2 times within its source
• XREF: connects to: Religious liberty bills favor one precise creed over all others — Katherine Stewart, The Power Worshippers: Inside the…, 646; Identical rhetoric about killing is prosecuted or celebrated depending on the speaker’s religion — Hamid Dabashi, Brown Skin, White Masks, 648; Religious establishment was legally redefined as private individual speech — Katherine Stewart, The Power Worshippers: Inside the…, 839 (+6 more)

Broader Connections

• Religious liberty bills favor one precise creed over all others #expands (0.85) — Katherine Stewart, The Power Worshippers, 646
• Identical rhetoric about killing is prosecuted or celebrated depending on the speaker’s religion #exemplifies (0.85) — Hamid Dabashi, Brown Skin, White Masks, 648
• Religious freedom means absence of fear and stigma, not just legal protection #contradicts (0.80) — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 132
• Christian churches read religious freedom as a right to proselytise. #expands (0.80) — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, 136
• Religious establishment was legally redefined as private individual speech #expands (0.75) — Katherine Stewart, The Power Worshippers, 839
• Religious freedom requires more than legal protection from persecution #complicates (0.75)
• Laws stripping religious freedom provoke principled civil disobedience #contradicts (0.70) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 824