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How does one advocate a public moral position identifiable with one?s religious tradition where religion is disestablished?

By Alliance Alert

Religious communities have a much bigger problem in publicly advocating what they take to be universal norms. That is not only their political problem; even more, it is their philosophical problem. Thus, religious people must be prepared to answer this question: How does one advocate a public moral position identifiable with one?s religious tradition in a society that does not look to any religious tradition for the justification of public morality? Surely, the political disestablishment of religion means that civil society may no longer look to any religious community for the authorization or justification of any public policy, let alone for any specific legal warrant.

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on February 06, 2009 (boomark / email).