Are we as free as we once were?

Economic Freedom Is Foundation Of All Other Freedoms  "Next Monday, January 17, is the 50th anniversary of President Dwight Eisenhower’s farewell address. The speech is most commonly remembered for President Eisenhower’s warning about the “unwarranted influence” of the “military-industrial complex,” but often left out of the story is Ike’s warning about profligate federal spending as well: “We cannot mortgage the material assets of our grandchildren without risking the loss also of their political and spiritual heritage. We want democracy to survive for all generations to come, not to become the insolvent phantom of tomorrow.” Ike went on to call for “balance in and among national programs” including “balance between the clearly necessary and the comfortably desirable.”"
I think we are now at the stage where opposing the "comfortably desirable" is likened to genocide and/ or racism by liberals.

Why Does Religious Freedom Matter? "The American model of religious liberty takes a strongly positive view of religious practice, both private and public. While it does not mean that anything and everything done in the name of religious liberty is not subject to the rule of law, it does mean that the law ought to make as much room as possible for the practice of religious faith. Far from privatizing religion, it assumes that religious believers and institutions will take active roles in society, including engaging in politics and policy-making and helping form the public’s moral consensus. In fact, the American Founders considered religious engagement in shaping the public morality essential to ordered liberty and the success of their experiment in self-government."  Jennifer Marshall

Religious Freedom On Trial At Mt. Soledad  "The Ninth Circuit Appeals Court panel ruled that the 43-foot Mt. Soledad Cross, which has occupied a seaside hill in La Jolla, California for over 50 years, violates the Establishment Clause of the Constitution."...
"Despite the cross’s memorializing purpose and its incorporation into a national tribute to fallen soldiers, the Ninth Circuit wrote in their opinion: “The history and absolute dominance of the Cross are not mitigated by the belated efforts to add less significant secular elements to the Memorial.""
What now about the thousands of crosses on soldiers' graves around this country and in Europe?  The American Civil Liberties Union seems to prefer the population have fewer civil liberties rather than offend even one person. Yet strangely, when I wrote to a TV program that I found their many uses of the exclamation, "oh, my god!" to be extremely hurtful, they wrote back saying, basically, tough toenails.