Activated Voices: Ending Moral Exclusions

July 11, 2012 By Tom Niemisto, Video Production Specialist

Conservative policy justifies disinvesting in public services and health care by using a moral exclusion argument—i.e. people who depend on these services must be deserving in some moral way to qualify for them.

Minnesota native Marisa Egerstrom, who is pursuing a Ph.D. at Harvard University in early American religion, debunks this false moral means testing in our latest installment of Activated Voices.  

 

 

Click here to read her formative essay on cnn.com's Belief Blog