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Interview | Author and Democrat Bruce Ledewitz on the coming American Religious Democracy | Marvin Olasky

Bruce Ledewitz received his J.D. from Yale Law School in 1977 and is a Professor of Law at Duquesne University, where he has taught constitutional law since 1980. His book American Religious Democracy (Praeger, 2007) argues that the era of ardent separation of church and state is over—and that the change is not something to fret about.

Many Christian conservatives have also written about secularism run amuck, but Ledewitz is neither conservative nor Christian: He served as western Pennsylvania coordinator for the presidential campaigns of Gary Hart and Al Gore, was secretary of the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty, and is Jewish.

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