Sentences with phrase «neutrality in public life»

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Franky Schaeffer decries neutrality as a «myth» which results in a freedom from religion and the exclusion of all those who operate on the basis of religious convictions from involvement in public life (Time for Anger, pp. 19 - 20).

Removing traditional Christmas displays from public places suggests not neutrality about religion in public life, but hostility.

While it may seek (in its sincere expressions) only neutrality toward religion, strict separationism in fact evidences a certain hostility toward religion — the effect of which is to deprive society of necessary moral and spiritual resources, to misinterpret and misrepresent the history of our culture, and to provoke anger and resentment among those who never consented to make our public life a «secular» enterprise.

No doubt her argument that the ban will survive scrutiny is based on some purported need of Quebec to legislate religious neutrality because of its history of church interference in politics and public life, up to the 1960s.