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Rick Garnett: Positive Secularism and the American Model of Religious Liberty

By Alliance Alert

Today the American experiment in religious liberty is both vital and vulnerable. Our religious-freedom protections are robust, but incomplete. Our church-state arrangement is exemplary, yet confused. This much, though, seems clear: what was true at the founding remains true today, namely, that there are at work several different models, or ways of thinking about, the freedom of religion under and through law. Indeed, to quote John Witte, the various competing models of Adams?s day?and it should be emphasized that there were competing models?have ?born ample progeny, and the great rivalries among them are fought out in the courts, legislatures, and academies throughout the land.?

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on February 03, 2009 (boomark / email).