Moral Exemptions

Should the law give special rights to the religious?

On The Impossibility of Religious Freedom by Winnifred Fallers Sullivan (Princeton University Press, $29.95)

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R. Laurence Moore is the H. A. Newman Professor of American Studies at Cornell University. His books include Selling God: American Religion in the Marketplace of Culture, The Godless Constitution, and Touchdown Jesus: The Mixing of Sacred and Secular in American History.

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