Benjamin E. Park

Many faiths face conflicts over institutional control. In Latter-day Saints history, the episode around the ‘September Six’ is particularly memorable.

America's sense of religious nationalism was forged in the same fires that ignited the profoundly secular French Revolution.

But it’s seriously dated. And there's another tradition he could draw on.

Champions of states' rights love federal power when it suits their goals — like Sessions's anti-marijuana crusade.