CONSCIENCE AND COMPROMISE

We began this book with a discussion about religious bias and its legitimization in the United States. This temperament, identified with an element on the political left, not only allows its purveyors to indulge their prejudice with impunity; it moves them to engage the government as a partner to enforce their perspective through a narrow interpretation of religious rights. Since the middle of the past century, those so inclined have had a certain measure of success in advancing their cause. Theirs is not the kind of bias directed at any one denominational group, so much as it is expressed towards