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Richard W. Garnett: Freedom for Faith, Freedom for All

By Alliance Alert

Richard W. Garnett reviews David Novak's In Defense of Religious Liberty at First Things: "Novak?s focus, in his Defense, is on a different version of religious liberty: the 'freedom of a religious community to bring its moral wisdom to the world'?to 'sing the Lord?s song on strange ground.' It is a freedom that is 'exercised for the world, even though many in the world may resist it.' So often, discussions and debates about law, religion, and policy are animated by a concern about keeping religion in its place and cataloging the circumstances in which religion is to be permitted to make its claims and present its vision. Always lurking, it is thought, is the danger that religion will be 'imposed' on the civic, the political, or the secular. Novak?s case, though, is again consonant with John Paul II's: 'The Church proposes; she imposes nothing.'"

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on January 04, 2010 (boomark / email).