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George Weigel: Defending religious freedom in full

By Alliance Alert

George Weigel writing at National Review Online: "[T]he gravest question for our public culture is the question of whether what Father [John Courtney] Murray called the 'American consensus' ? that ensemble of 'ethical and political principles drawn from the tradition of natural law' ? still holds . . . If religiously informed moral argument is banned from the American public square, then the public square has become, not only naked, but undemocratic and intolerant. If, on the other hand, religiously informed moral argument is welcome in public life, then we have the possibility of rebuilding, not a sacred public square (a goal the Catholic Church rejected at the Second Vatican Council), but a civil public square, in which tolerance is understood in its true sense as differences engaged within a bond of civility formed by a mutual commitment to reason."

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on May 18, 2010 (boomark / email).