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Jeff Shafer: Stigma and dogma, revisited

By Alliance Alert

ADF Attorney Jeff Shafer writing at speakupmovement.org/university: "Our educational institutions have made systemic the exclusion of outlooks that deviate from their shared rigid definition of acceptable rationality. As one prominent example, the Rawlsian ideal of 'public reason'?as ubiquitous in its dominance as encompassing in its prohibitions?forbids Christian and other religious presuppositions from participation in public discourse. That this involves de-privileging a framework of understanding that historically informed Western Civilization seems, for that reason, a considerable affront. But it is just there that its explanation is found. An intellectual rival has gained ascendancy, and is not inclined to give any latitude to its vanquished?and loathed?predecessor."

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on May 13, 2010 (boomark / email).