America¿s first and most important freedom is on life support. Three friends say good-bye after graduation from Princeton. Each is bound by high ideals and a resolute ambition to change the world . but unable to anticipate the dramatic events that will bring them back together. Each Sunday Pastor Pat Preston stands behind the pulpit of his Nashville megachurch, hoping to change the world by proclaiming biblical truth. Newly appointed U.S. Assistant Attorney General John Knox Smith is out to change the world one arrest at a time.

He is determined to mandate equality and wipe out intolerance by criminalizing hate speech. And he will prosecute anyone who discriminates against the new legal classes of people he has helped create . even Pat Preston. Standing between them is their friend Matt Branson, who now works in the Justice Department. Can Pastor Pat and religious freedom survive this frightening world John Knox Smith is working to create?.