Word: pluralist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Public or Private Values. Cohen defends both Catholicism and Orthodox Judaism against the secularist charges that they are incompatible with democracy; just because one's neighbor holds different religious opinions, says Cohen, is no reason to accuse him of being disloyal to a pluralist, democratic society. Clancy, on the other hand, attacks those Catholics who are trying to "impose on the public values that, in this time and place, have become private values," as is often the case in censorship fights. Such Catholics, says Clancy, "act as though the last few centuries had never happened." Both Clancy and Cohen...