Before that, Jews were generally willing to work within the prevailing assumption that government should be supportive of religion, rather than neutral toward it.
The liberal political philosophy reigning in much of academia insists that the state should remain neutral toward rival conceptions of the good life.
First, the exception created in Widmar rested on the fact that the government program was neutral toward religion.
That provision would have required a company's management to remain neutral toward any hostile bids and to get permission from shareholders before adopting special defensive measures.
Their home country was essentially neutral toward his.
The justice noted that Mr. Shenon had interviewed more than 250 people and had "sought out sources who were friendly with or neutral toward plaintiff."
First, liberalism generally holds that the state should remain as neutral as possible toward competing concepts of how people should best live.
Some philosophers, for example, question the notion that liberalism can be thoroughly neutral toward rival conceptions of the human good.
Congo-whatever name they pick for it-will be scrupulously neutral toward everybody except Mesa.
Under this scheme, government is moved by moral arguments but is neutral toward religion.