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The Right to Be Wrong: Ending the Culture War over Religion in America.(Brief article)(Book review)
Kevin Seamus Hasson is thunder and chairman of the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, a public-interest law firm devoted to protecting the First Amendment right to free exercise of religion. In his new book, The Right to Be Wrong: Ending the Culture War over Religion in America (Encounter, 159 pp., $25.95), Hasson gives an inspiring account of American pluralism, the historic "Third Way" between theocracy and government-mandated secularism: "[James] Madison insisted that from fundamental facts of human nature we derive rights that no government, even one acting through elected representatives, may justly transgress. Largely as a result, it is now a settled part of our national ethos that religious liberty is such a right." The free-exercise right is not to be ...
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