This article was originally posted on The Chautauqua Daily by Kaitlyn Finchler.
Public policies aren’t just laws created to run the country — they are policies based on morality, on religion, whether or not the people creating the laws identify as religious.
Liz Bucar, a leading expert in religious ethics, professor of religion at Northeastern University and prize-winning author, will deliver her lecture “The Protestant Template: How Hidden Religious Bias Shapes American Law” at 2 p.m. today in the Hall of Philosophy.
Hers is the first presentation for the Week Seven Interfaith Lecture Series theme “Whose Body, Whose Choice? Religion, Sexual Politics, and the Law.”
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