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Religious Freedom and the Constitution.(Brief article)(Book review)
The authors argue that the "wall of separation" between church and state is a clumsy metaphor that, in the past sixty years, has repeatedly led courts into "jurisprudential quicksand." In its place, they offer a principle that they call equal liberty, which diverts attention from "imponderable questions about the goodness of religion" and focusses it on individual cases. Free religious expression thus becomes largely a function of other freedoms--like those of speech and association. The authors ...
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