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Stanley Fish: When is a cross a cross?

By Alliance Alert

Stanley Fish writing at the New York Times | The Opinionator: "It has become a formula: if you want to secure a role for religious symbols in the public sphere, you must de-religionize them, either by claiming for them a non-religious meaning as Kennedy does here, or, in the case of multiple symbols in a park or in front of a courthouse, by declaring that the fact of many of them means that no one of them is to be taken seriously; they don?t stand for anything sectarian; they stand for diversity. So you save the symbols by leeching the life out of them. The operation is successful, but the patient is dead."

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