One Generation Away: The Erosion of Religious Liberty (2015)

It's title taken for a Ronald Reagan quote about how "Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction." One Generation Away is a Christian documentary about threats (real or perceived) to religious liberty in America. The film talks about a number of well known cases such as controversy over the cross at the San Diego War Memorial, the Hobby Lobby decent over contraceptive provisions of Obamacare, a cake maker who refused to make a cake for a gay marriage and subsequently went out of business etc. While for the most part I tend to take claims of the persecution of Christians for their beliefs in overwhelming Christian America as more then a little overstated, I can recognize the conflicting values and legal guarantee's/ protections involved in most of the cases here presented. The one case where I would have had little trouble passing judgment is the one where the cheerleaders at a high school in Texas put bible quotes on banners displayed at games, it one thing for banners like these to appear in the stands displayed by parents and other students, but when cheerleaders in uniform representing the school display these there is an implied school sanction of a particular faith to which me crosses a line. There are some ACLU types shown to present the other side, but the film has an obvious agenda from the get go, which is fine, and most of the talking heads are the likes of Mike Huckabee, Rick Sanatorium and other figures who straddle the religious political line in a partisan manner. I thought this was kind of bland documentary but it gets its point across. **