Volume 55, Number 8 · May 15, 2008
Where Shall the Preaching Stop?
By Kent Greenawalt
Liberty of Conscience: In Defense of America's Tradition of Religious Equality
by Martha C. Nussbaum
Basic Books, 406 pp., $28.95
How should religious beliefs and organizations figure in our political life? At no time in recent memory has this question aroused the passion it does now, thanks to a president who reiterates the importance of his evangelical Christian beliefs and to the Supreme Court's recent far-reaching changes in the interpretation of the First Amendment's guarantee—in the Establishment and Free Exercise Clauses—that 'Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.'
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