Religious reasons and cultural reasons

Marc DeGirolami has a thoughtful post up on Mirror of Justice about distinguishing religious reasons from cultural reasons.  He concludes: "[S]omehow the rhetoric of distinguishing between religion and culture continues to permeate our discussion of these issues, even our legally binding discussions.  It's the kind of distinction which is easy to state as if it were clear, and maybe it is even useful in some skin-deep, throw-away-line kind of way.  It's a rhetorically appealing device which trades sub silentio on a very particular view of the nature of religion.  But scratch at it just a little, and it begins to disintegrate."  Read the whole post here.