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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... decisions, which can only serve as a vague guide to future policy. As an institution, apart from the individuals who com ... decision must have come as a surprise to Judge Roy S. Moore, the former chief justice of Alabama, who was driven ...
... decision of 1954, declaring that education “must be made available to all on equal terms.”2 I explained that a needs-based choice program targeted at poor families is a form of redistributive public policy. It was not my intention to ...
... decision since Brown. Four days later President George W. Bush drew the same analogy, followed shortly by conservative columnist George F. Will. While I had linked the plea for choice to the egalitarian mandate sounded in Brown, I had ...
... decision makers in the Oval Office was a closed one, averse to dissenting opinions. The point of the article was to show that this alleged close-mindedness is a function of religious conviction. What I found interesting about the piece ...
... decision to do so was an “ an act of inclusion " towards the two hundred thousand Muslims living in his country . He wrote , " By treating a Muslim figure the same way I would a Christian or Jewish icon , I was sending an important ...
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The Last Freedom: Religion from the Public School to the Public Square Joseph P. Viteritti No preview available - 2007 |