There is much to commend in this work. It's thoughtful, careful, and exceptionally well written. In the end, we have only anecdotal evidence that religiously grounded arguments are unwelcome in the public square. We have no way to know whether the proponents of secularization through privatization find their cause advanced in any significant way through the separation doctrine. Finally, there is nothing here that really makes the argument that we should take positions grounded in faith more seriously.
First principles are more a matter of faith here than of argument.
Copyright 2000 by the author, John E. Finn.