[lit-ideas] Re: Religion & Public Reason
- From: Eric <mr.eric.yost@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 07 Aug 2010 04:55:52 -0400
On 8/6/2010 2:44 PM, Phil Enns wrote:
what matters is the lawfulness of those laws. That is, what matters is
these laws are understood as providing equal and fair constraints or
rights on all, and that these constraints and rights are enforced by
the coercive powers of the government.
And also wrote:
What makes the French prohibition of the hijab or niqab objectionable
is the obvious hypocrisy of a radically secular state concerning
itself with religious reasons.
I don't understand. Ordinary citizens are probably prohibited from
walking around in armored bomb-disposal suits. Likewise if the Red
Domino from Biely's Petersburg were stalking around, he'd probably get
the slammer too.
If a Christian sect required its adherents to lug large bomb-shaped
boxes when they gallivanted in airports, it would be easier to identify
the issue as public safety, not religious persecution. Stateside a
couple years ago, we had news of a Floridian who wanted her driver's
license photo taken in hijab, but had been turned down. (It was
considered as a joke here, like wanting to have Guernica as your
driver's license photo.)
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