{"id":2700,"date":"2013-04-28T02:07:21","date_gmt":"2013-04-28T09:07:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=2700"},"modified":"2018-03-06T15:47:29","modified_gmt":"2018-03-06T23:47:29","slug":"claims-of-conscience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=2700","title":{"rendered":"Claims of Conscience"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Religious Freedom and State Power<\/h2>\n<p><em>Commonweal<\/em><br \/>\n3 May, 2013<\/p>\n<p class=\"author\">William Galston<\/p>\n<p>Is religious conscience special? And what kinds of claims (if any) does conscience warrant? These are two of the many questions Brian Leiter raises in his provocative book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Why-Tolerate-Religion-Brian-Leiter\/dp\/0691153612\" target=\"_self\"><em>Why Tolerate Religion? <\/em><\/a>(Princeton University Press, $24.95, 192 pp.).<\/p>\n<p>Note that in principle one could answer the first question in the negative\u2014by denying the distinctiveness of religion\u2014while endorsing broad claims for conscience as such. Imagine a two-by-two table: In the upper left quadrant is an expansive notion of conscience coupled with a broad conception of conscientious claims; in the bottom right is conscience restricted to religion with few or no claims to which the law must yield. The two remaining quadrants are broad\/narrow and narrow\/broad, respectively.\u00a0 [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.commonwealmagazine.org\/claims-conscience\" target=\"_blank\">Read more <\/a>. . .]<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"New book questions preferential treatment of religious liberty\" href=\"http:\/\/consciencelaws.org\/blog\/?p=2501\">New book questions preferential treatment of religious liberty<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Religious Freedom and State Power Commonweal 3 May, 2013 William Galston Is religious conscience special? And what kinds of claims (if any) does conscience warrant? These are two of the many questions Brian Leiter raises in his provocative book Why Tolerate Religion? (Princeton University Press, $24.95, 192 pp.). Note that in principle one could answer &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=2700\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Claims of Conscience&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5432,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[460,459,295],"tags":[482,481],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-2700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary-religion","category-pluralism-secularism","category-religious-freedom","tag-brian-leiter","tag-william-galston"],"yoast_head":"\r\n<title>Claims of Conscience - Protection of Conscience Project News<\/title>\r\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\r\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=2700\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Claims of Conscience - Protection of Conscience Project News\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Religious Freedom and State Power Commonweal 3 May, 2013 William Galston Is religious conscience special? 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