Lectures at the Abbey

Christian Faith and Public Policy: Faith and the Constitution

01 May 2012 at 6:15 pm

Exploring issues of faith and public policy. This final lecture concentrated on the issue of whether or not the law should make accommodation for religious beliefs and practices or whether it should deal with each person equally irrespective of conscientious claims.  This issue also involved taking up the question of whether religious claims are in some sense special and if they are whether this should be the basis of legal privileges.

Raymond Plant is a Labour Peer and Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Philosophy at King's College London. Lord Plant sits in the House of Lords as a member of the Joint Committee on Human Rights. He has written extensively on political, social, and legal philosophy, dealing with such issues as  human rights and community. He is a Fellow of St Catherine's College Oxford, and Harris Manchester College Oxford.

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