The Gadfly Affair: A 21st Century Heretic’s Excommunication from America’s Most Liberal Religion

Freedom, reason, tolerance.

These are the values American Unitarianism was founded upon in the late 18th century: the same Enlightenment principles that had also inspired the nation’ s founders.

Until recently, it was unthinkable that this liberal religion would be capable of banning books and silencing dissenters.