[Professor Stephen L. Carter of Yale Law School in a rambling article on
the role of religious activism in public life] evidently fails to
appreciate that many religious Americans still wish to respect the
consciences of those whose beliefs differ from their own. Thus he
fails to make a substantive distinction between the use of religious
rhetoric to expand personal freedom, as in the civil rights movement,
and the use of religious rhetoric to diminish the freedom of those one
does not approve of -- to punish such "sinful" people through force of
law.