Rhetoric Race and Religion
William Saletan’s recent commentary comparing racial and sexist bigotry with bias against Mormonism showed an admirable intent to remove prejudice from our national rhetoric. But his comparison conflated two very different topics—discrimination based on biological characteristic and discrimination based on a chosen system of beliefs. This conflation runs the risk of suppressing citizens’ obligation to evaluate a politician’s beliefs, based on the false premise that expressing concern about a religion’s doctrinal teaching is simply another form of bigotry.
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