A few years ago, a student asked me a great question--why isn't there a right under the EC to be free from religion? The idea is that any religious expression in the public square is a deprivation of the citizens right to be free from religion.
What do the rest of you think about that?
We will talk about this again soon, but here is an excerpt of Justice Scalia's dissent in McCreary County (one of the Ten Commandment cases) in which he addresses this issue and compares the USA to France (link).
If nonreligious people should have a right to be free from religion, should religious people have a right to be free from nonreligion? How would we construct a public square that respected both of these calls for triumphalism? What would a pluralistic public square, one seeking to reflect the cultural and religious diversity of the local community, look like?
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