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Can This Culture Be Saved? Another Affirmative Action Baby Reflects On Religious Freedom (Review Of The Culture Of Disbelief, How American Law And Politics Trivialize Religious Devotion, By Stephen L. Carter), W. Burlette Carter

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In a critical review of Professor Stephen Carter’s The Culture of Disbelief, this article contends Stephen Carter’s thesis that religion is disrespected in the U.S. lacks support and is inherently defective as a starting point from which to fashion a workable theory of freedom to engage in public religion. It argues that Stephen Carter himself fails to adequately consider minority group religious freedom rights and, thus, trivializes the very religious concerns that he set out to highlight. The article is split into four parts. In Part I, the article gives a basic outline of the trivialization theory. Part II …