An Unoriginal Position

Janet Benestad asserts that inherent in the fundamental principles of Rawl’s political liberalism is the intention of separating citizens from their deeply held moral convictions. This means that political liberalism—in the distinctions given by Rawls to separate it from the liberal regimes of Mill and Kant—now necessarily demands secular political discourse. By Rawlsian design it is exclusionary and hostile to personal conscience and morality, and a threat to religious liberty. Benestad uses…