"[T]he government should look at China and aspire to do better."

Some basic, but unfortunately on-point advice from Mark Rienzi for the Obama Administration: Do better than China on religious liberty. 

The Administration (and others interested) should read Professor Rienzi's USA Today op-ed on a topic I briefly blogged about previously: "American nuns, Chinese booze and religious persecution." 

(Interesting sidenote: The op-ed is not about same-sex  marriage, but USA Today apparently saw fit to include "gay-marriage" in the web address: http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2015/05/13/china-religion-america-government-gay-marriage-column/27130999/. It would have been really interesting if they had also sought to include "pizza," "memories," "Indiana," or some combination like "Hoosier-pizza-gay-marriage-China-religion-memories-america-take-out-government.")