ABSTRACT
This response to Balint focuses on his stance towards minority cultural and religious practices where he is in general sceptical of special accommodation. I argue that there are grounds to grant special rights and other accommodative measures towards such minorities on the basis of freedom and citizenship (both values Balint endorses), and appraisal respect, a value he rejects. The upshot is more support for a hands-on, active state than the hands-off state that Balint favours.
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1. Eweida and others v. UK (2013) ECHR 37.
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Jonathan Seglow
Jonathan Seglow is Reader in Political Theory at Royal Holloway, University of London. He is the author of Defending Associative Duties (Routledge, 2013). His more recent work has been on religious accommodation, religious establishment and freedom of speech.