Postmodern Amish: Paradoxes and riddles
The United States Supreme Court in Wisconsin v. Yoder (1972) went on record in effect endorsing a particular religious group—the one time in its history that I am aware of its having done so. At the same time, the court advanced postmodernism, deconstructionism and relativism with this sentence: “There can be no assumption that today’s majority is ‘right’ and the Amish and others are ‘wrong.’” I’ve often pondered that “others”: who in the world is excluded?