Religion & Law

My response to Rick's question, in the immediately preceding post:  I agree with you, Rick:  Doug should tell us if, in his view, his constitutional philosophy has changed (as it certainly seems to have changed)--and if so, why it has changed.  Lord knows that *my* my constitutional philosophy has changed over the years.  On two of the most controversial constitutional issues of our day--if not the two most controversial issues:  (1) Although I oppose the criminalization of pre-viability abortions, I think Roe v. Wade was wrongly decided.  (2) I also think that a state's failure to extend the benefit of law to same-sex unions violates the Fourteenth Amendment.  (Whether a state must call such unions "marriages" is a different, and, I think,  more difficult, question.)  I explain both positions in a book that will be published early next year:  The Political Morality of Liberal Democracy (Cambridge University Pess, 2010). I hope Rick will review the book!