Religion isn’t truly free if it can’t effectively assist families in passing on faith and tradition to their children. So, by “thick” religious liberty I mean, at a minimum, emancipating religious institutions to collaborate with parents in the work of education. The massive system of “free” public education—a government cartel designed to compete against religious schools—represents a drastic violation of religious liberty. Fewer than 7 percent of American schoolchildren attend religious schools.13
This summarizes so well why, if we want to see birth rates increase and families become stronger, we need universal school choice.
