The Last Freedom: Religion from the Public School to the Public SquareThe presidency of George W. Bush has polarized the church-state debate as never before. The Far Right has been emboldened to use religion to govern, while the Far Left has redoubled its efforts to evict religion from public life entirely. Fewer people on the Right seem to respect the church-state separation, and fewer people on the Left seem to respect religion itself--still less its free exercise in any situation that is not absolutely private. In The Last Freedom, Joseph Viteritti argues that there is a basic tension between religion and democracy because religion often rejects compromise as a matter of principle while democracy requires compromise to thrive. In this readable, original, and provocative book, Viteritti argues that Americans must guard against debasing politics with either antireligious bigotry or religious zealotry. Drawing on politics, history, and law, he defines a new approach to the church-state question that protects the religious and the secular alike. |
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... justice of Alabama, who was driven from office in 2003 when he defied a federal court order to re- move a similar two-and-a-half-ton stone monument he had installed in his courthouse. What was the difference? The Texas monolith was one ...
... justice William Rehnquist emphasized that the assemblage was designed to trace sev- eral strands of political and legal history, of which religion was just one part. Several justices differentiated the Van Orden case from a 1980 case in ...
... Justice Scalia argued that intent was irrelevant in the second case because the Constitution has always allowed government to recog- nize the religious heritage of the American people. Justice Stevens had dissented in the first case ...
... justice.1 Education has always been an essential part of the American dream, so much so that every state constitution defines it as both an individual right and a parental obligation. As long as middle-class parents have the means to ...
... Justice, a libertarian public interest law firm, de- clared the 2002 ruling to be the most important education decision since Brown. Four days later President George W. Bush drew the same analogy, followed shortly by conservative ...
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The Last Freedom: Religion from the Public School to the Public Square Joseph P. Viteritti No preview available - 2007 |