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The Vietnam Draft Cases And The Pro-Religion Equality Project, Bruce Ledewitz
The Vietnam Draft Cases And The Pro-Religion Equality Project, Bruce Ledewitz
Bruce Ledewitz
There is currently unfolding among secularists and liberal religious believers an equality project that argues that secular commitments of conscience are as worthy of protection as are the commitments of traditional religion. This movement is symbolized by Brian Leiter’s recent book, "Why Tolerate Religion?" but it has many other adherents today as well. This movement seeks either to substitute conscience provisions for existing religious exemptions from law or at least to add conscience exemptions to them. As religious believers have pointed out, the likely consequence, and perhaps even the goal, of this effort is the weakening of exemptions for religion …