That is what my colleague, Jamil Dakwar, told the Human Dimension Implementation Meeting in Warsaw, Poland this week. Jamil is the director of the ACLU Human Rights Program, and part of his job is to help the ACLU pay attention to the rights and liberties guaranteed by treaty, as well as the more conventional sources of constitutions and statutes. Here in Maine, we know full well how critical religious freedom is, and how perilous. ACLU of MAINE Board President Chris Branson discussed some of our work to protect religious minorities in an op-ed in the Portland Press Herald this week. Next week, Peter Eliasberg of the ACLU of Southern California will argue a major Establishment Clause case at the opening week of the new U.S. Supreme Court term. The challenges raised by these cases are not easy, but they are a central part of who we are as a nation.
