After a nut-related event last night, I would prefer not to think about "throwing up" for a while. But, alas, I saw Little Ricky's pensees on the subject of religious freedom anyway, so: Former senator Rick Santorum (R-Pa.) on Sunday defended a statement he made...
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I'm sure you'll be surprised to know that I don't find E.J. Dionne's criticisms of the Obama administration's contraception coverage persuasive. For the reasons stated there it's not entirely clear.
Since I'm skeptical of even much narrower anti-veil public policy, I find much broader French bans on wearing veils in public particularly dismaying. Like Somin, I express no opinion about.
I've always found the approach to religious neutrality employed by (amongst many other countries) France, which includes a ban on religious headscarves in public schools, to be deeply misguided and paternalistic at best, and thinly veiled racism at worst. This anecdote certainly doesn't do much...
I love PZ, but I really can't imagine a less effective way of trying to teach evolution than declaring to high school juniors that religion is evil and there is.