In his article, he responds to criticism of St. Paul Region's Hospital for removing a Christian cross from the hospital's chapel. He succinctly summarizes Region's Hospital's challenge by writing: "The motivation is not necessarily concern to avoid offense, but to offer a space that could be meaningfully utilized by people of different religious commitments."
He suggests four solutions, ones that we can easily generalize to all sorts of situations: 1. cease offering any sort of religious accomodation; 2. offer all sorts of religious accomodation; 3. all people of all religions to make desired accomodations; and 4. accomodate needs without including items or symbolism that may make a person from another religious background uncomfortable.
Read through his article and arguments. What do you think? Please post your followup comments.
