{"id":12539,"date":"2010-06-10T20:34:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-11T03:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.consciencelaws.org\/?p=12539"},"modified":"2023-01-10T21:07:04","modified_gmt":"2023-01-11T05:07:04","slug":"liberalism-unbound-towards-a-more-inclusive-public-sphere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.consciencelaws.org\/?p=12539","title":{"rendered":"Liberalism Unbound: Towards a More Inclusive Public Sphere"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A Response to Iain T. Benson, \u201cLiving Together with Disagreement:<br>Pluralism, the Secular and the Fair Treatment of Beliefs<br>in Canada Today\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Alex Fielding<\/h4>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"244\" height=\"230\" src=\"https:\/\/library.consciencelaws.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/ronning-2.jpg\" alt=\"Liberalism Unbound: Towards a More Inclusive Public Sphere\" class=\"wp-image-12545\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>Abstract<\/strong><br>This response will be divided into three segments. First, it will respond to Benson\u2019s analysis of pluralism, liberalism, and the \u201csecular\u201d. Second, it will advocate for a return to John Stuart Mill\u2019s harm principle as a better way of reconciling competing claims when equality rights and religious freedoms collide. Third, it will apply the harm principle to the contemporary issues of same-sex marriage and the religious objections of marriage commissioners. The central idea is that by moving away from the vague, all-encompassing language of \u201cCharter values\u201d to the harm principle, we create a more pluralistic public sphere that gives reasons for religious and ethnic minorities to reciprocate such tolerance and participate actively in civil society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Benson IT, Fielding A. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ualberta.ca\/augustana\/media-library\/research\/crc\/publications\/benson-living-together-with-disagreement.pdf\">Living Together with Disagreement: Pluralism, the Secular, and the Fair Treatment of Beliefs in Canada Today<\/a>  [Internet]. Camrose, Alberta: The Ronning Centre for the Study of Religion and Public Life; 2010: 46-60. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Response to Iain T. Benson, \u201cLiving Together with Disagreement:Pluralism, the Secular and the Fair Treatment of Beliefsin Canada Today\u201d Alex Fielding AbstractThis response will be divided into three segments. First, it will respond to Benson\u2019s analysis of pluralism, liberalism, and the \u201csecular\u201d. Second, it will advocate for a return to John Stuart Mill\u2019s harm &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/library.consciencelaws.org\/?p=12539\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Liberalism Unbound: Towards a More Inclusive Public Sphere&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559,970,552,720],"tags":[971,972,579],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-12539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law","category-proceedings","category-religion","category-religious-freedom","tag-alex-fielding","tag-pluralism","tag-secularism"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\r\n<title>Liberalism Unbound: Towards a More Inclusive Public Sphere - Protection of Conscience 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