Equality under law. Affirmation and recognition of the value of individuals and their equality and freedom. It also requires a positive recognition' of the other. Religious liberty problems usually correlate with societal insecurity, in turn caused by the reality or perceived threat of social change. When an elite or privileged group, whether racial, cultural, ethnic, religious, or financial, feel their privileged status is threatened, they too often respond in a repressive manner towards those perceived as causing the threat.
Religious liberty requires the real risk of social change.
No risk, no gain. We do not have the right to choose and practice a religion unless we grant it to others in our societies. And if that right has any real meaning, we must admit the real possibility that individuals may exercise that right in such a way as to produce societal change in a direction with which we are not comfortable. In essence, we must convince both governments and peoples that change is inevitable, that it can be managed but not prevented, and that the risk of change inherent in religious liberty is far better than repression and strife without it. We must learn to speak to the secular mind.