The wall of separation
Philocrates has a good commentary on James Carroll's editorial in the Boston Globe entitled The Dark Side of Secularism.In it, Carroll discuses the separation of morality from law..
"You can't legislate morality," Americans told each other. Because the language of morality was associated with religion, the discourse of "secular" politics became ethically hollow. Thus, for example (in an observation made by the writer Wendell Barry), Thomas Jefferson could in his public role argue against slavery, while clinging to slaves as "private" property, about which the state had nothing to say. On this issue, Americans would fight a war to enshrine morality in law.
posted by Paul Wilczynski @ 9:33 AM
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