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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... tion of Independence, and “In God We Trust,” which appears on our currency. This led the Supreme Court to conclude that the main pur- pose behind the exhibition was to convey a religious message—similar to what the federal court had ...
... tion to a “religiously correct” worldview that is the mirror image of the political correctness of the political Left.8 His vision is ominous, and not without merit. Bush, after all, presented himself to the country as a born-again ...
... tion with his faith. Then we meet Hardy Billington, a social conserva- tive from Popular Bluff, Missouri, who is quoted as telling a rally of twenty thousand Bush supporters gathered at a Labor Day rally, “I love my president. I love my ...
... tion that pits the Free Exercise Clause against the Establishment Clause, or a citizen's right to practice religion against a citizen's right to not. Constitutional law, as interpreted by the Supreme Court over our two-hundred-year ...
... tion.” In Paris coffeehouses, Article 141-5-1 became known as the la loi contre le voile because it was directed at young Muslim women who wore headscarves to school as an expression of their religious beliefs and identity. The veil ...
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The Last Freedom: Religion from the Public School to the Public Square Joseph P. Viteritti No preview available - 2007 |