REGISTER HERE for the 2012 National Religious Freedom Conference 

For information about the gala award dinner and reception following the conference, with keynote speaker The Most Reverend William E. Lori, Archbishop-designate of Baltimore, please email bcook@eppc.org.

You are invited    Thursday, May 24, 2012    Georgetown Four Seasons Hotel 2800 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington, D.C. 20007 (202) 342-0444 Sponsored by the Ethics and Public Policy Center's  American Religious Freedom Program www.religiousfreedom.org Register at www.religiousfreedom.org/conference2012    MORNING SESSIONS AND CONFIRMED SPEAKERS Registration and Breakfast (8:00-8:45 a.m.)  Session 1 (8:45-10:00 a.m.): Shredding the Fabric of Freedom and Peaceful Pluralism? Robert P. George, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence, Princeton University Moderator: Dr. Thomas F. Farr, Director, Religious Freedom Project, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs, Georgetown University Session 2 (10:00-11:45 a.m.): Unprecedented Threats to American Religious Freedom and Rights of Conscience Nathan J. Diament, Executive Director of Public Policy, Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America  William A. Galston, Senior Fellow, Ezra K. Zilkha Chair in Governance Studies, Brookings Institution Dr. Richard Land, President, Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention Dr. Donald W. Landry, Samuel Bard Professor of Medicine; Chair, Department of Medicine; Physician-in-Chief, New York Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Hannah Smith, Senior Counsel, The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty Moderator: Professor Gerard V. Bradley, University of Notre Dame Law School AFTERNOON SESSIONS AND CONFIRMED SPEAKERS Lunch (11:45-12:30 p.m.)  Session 3 (12:30-2:15 p.m.): Uniting to Preserve Robust Freedoms Elder L. Whitney Clayton, Presidency of the Seventy, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints  The Most Reverend Salvatore J. Cordileone, Bishop of Oakland Dr. Timothy George, Dean and Professor of Divinity, Beeson Divinity School, Samford University The Very Reverend Dr. Chad Hatfield, Chancellor/CEO and Professor of Missiology, St. Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary Rabbi Dr. Meir Y. Soloveichik, Director, Zahava and Moshael Straus Center for Torah & Western Thought, Yeshiva University Moderator: Robert P. George, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence, Princeton University Session 4 (2:15-3:45 p.m.): Legislative Action to Constrain Overreaching Officials Honorable J. Kenneth Blackwell, Senior Fellow, Family Research Council and former Secretary of State of Ohio Honorable Lance Kinzer, Kansas House of Representatives Tim Schultz, State Legislative Policy Director, American Religious Freedom Program, Ethics and Public Policy Center Moderator: Honorable Michael Leavitt, Former HHS Secretary and Governor of Utah Session 5 (3:45-5:15 p.m.): Defending the 200-Year Tradition of Religious Diversity and Freedom for U.S. Soldiers and Veterans Major General (Ret.) Douglas Carver, Former U.S. Army Chief of Chaplains Colonel Jacob Goldstein, Chaplain, U.S. Army Reserve Kelly Shackelford, President and CEO, Liberty Institute Moderator: Matthew J. Franck, Director, William E. and Carol G. Simon Center on Religion and the Constitution, Witherspoon Institute