Religion & Law

Here's a link to the National Catholic Reporter's article which gives of nice snapshot of the Fordham Center for Religion and Culture "Matters of Conscience: When Moral Precepts Collide With Public Policy" discussion last week, featuring MOJ's own Rob Vischer, together with Marc Stern, Doug Kmiec, and Nadine Strossen, and moderated by Russ Pearce. 

Rob's contribution to the discussion was also a great sneak preview of his forthcoming book on Conscience and the Common Good.  As he was quoted in this NCR piece, "where values clash, the default position for a society that takes conscience seriously" should be to "resist temptation to use state power to close down the conversation," rather than "see which side can harness state power to its chosen value."

It was indeed a "lively debate"!