Caroline Matas is a doctoral student at Princeton University and social media editor for the Harvard Religious Literacy Project. She studies contemporary American religious identity and media. She can be found tweeting @carolinematas.
While Perkins has expressed interest in using his new position as an opportunity to support “religious freedom and the defense of religious minorities,” he might find that the USCIRF actually doesn’t require a significant change in focus from his own preoccupations with Christians’ rights.
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