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Noah Feldman has deposited a large lump of dung in the NY Times Sunday Magazine that suggests he's either a treacherous totalitarian or a complete fool. The only comment it merits here is a copy of the letter we sent to the editors:

To The Editors,

Re: http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/03/magazine/03CHURCH.html

Noah Feldman says that,

"Values evangelicals say that the solution lies in finding and embracing traditional values we can all share and without which we will never hold together. Legal secularists counter that we can maintain our national unity only if we treat religion as a personal, private matter, separate from concerns of citizenship. The goal of reconciling national unity and religious diversity is the same, but the methods for doing it are deeply opposed.

"...neither approach deserves to prevail. Both are self-contradictory: they fail precisely where they want to succeed, namely in reconciling religious diversity with unity."

This conclusion is faulty by virtue of Feldman's accepting the goals of the "values evangelicals" at face value.

In truth they don't want to find "values we can all share"--they believe their values are the Word of God. At issue is the difference between the realm of faith and the realm of justice.

It is the difference between freedom and tyranny. To equate them is a tremendous, deadly error.

Regards,

Editor - www.201k.com