
How Florida became America's leading religious-freedom defender under DeSantis: report
Fox News
Legislation protecting religious freedoms passed by Gov. DeSantis was cited as a major part of the state's roughly 20-point improvement in the rankings since 2022.
The index uses a detailed scoring system measuring legal protections and ranking states based on the percentage of possible safeguards they have adopted.
This year, with 2025's rankings, nearly 55 percentage points separates Florida from the last-place state, West Virginia, which has been last on the index for three years in a row.
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