{"id":60968,"date":"2017-06-16T16:11:49","date_gmt":"2017-06-16T20:11:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=60968"},"modified":"2017-06-16T17:24:17","modified_gmt":"2017-06-16T21:24:17","slug":"pd-ismail-royer-bernie-sanders-relativism-test-is-bad-for-muslims-and-all-religious-believers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=60968","title":{"rendered":"(PD) Ismail Royer&#8211;Bernie Sander\u2019s Relativism Test Is Bad for Muslims and All Religious Believers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thus, <strong>any Muslim unwilling to repudiate the belief that Islam is objectively true and that other religions are, at least in critical respects, objectively false, would be unqualified to serve under Bernie\u2019s relativism test<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>It also follows that any Muslims objecting to Vought\u2019s appointment must either admit they don\u2019t believe Islam is objectively true, admit they\u2019re employing a double standard, or drop their objection to the appointment. The corollary to this, of course, is that any non-Muslims objecting to a Muslim\u2019s appointment to public office merely on the basis of his religious beliefs are in precisely the same position. As James Madison wrote, the No Religious Test Clause means \u201cJews Turks &#038; infidels\u201d are free to serve in government. So long as a Muslim candidate for public service is qualified for office, the fact that he or she is an unapologetic Muslim can be no grounds for objecting to the appointment. Anyone who says otherwise while opposing Bernie\u2019s test must either admit his bad faith or repudiate the Constitution.<\/p>\n<p>I am inclined to think that Bernie Sanders and his allies mean well in opposing Vought\u2019s nomination. They want to protect the feelings of members of a religious minority that has come under fire from many quarters. That sentiment is admirable and appreciated, but misguided. Bernie needs to realize that Muslims in America are more adult, and have more confidence in themselves and in the truth of their faith, than one might imagine. More importantly, by bending the Constitution in the name of pluralism to require relativism from all holders of public office, the institution of such a test would constitute a loss for Muslims and all religious believers in the long run.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thepublicdiscourse.com\/2017\/06\/19564\/\">Read it all<\/a> (my emphasis).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thus, any Muslim unwilling to repudiate the belief that Islam is objectively true and that other religions are, at least in critical respects, objectively false, would be unqualified to serve under Bernie\u2019s relativism test. It also follows that any Muslims<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=60968\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[209,168,117,151,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americau-s-a","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-philosophy","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60968"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60970,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60968\/revisions\/60970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}