Hamilton Defends the "Public Good"

Here's a curious piece by Cardozo law prof Marci Hamilton lambasting Senator Rick Santorum for "choosing a religious agenda over the public good."  Among her examples, she cites his support for abstinence-only education, "which is nothing but education in religious values, utterly divorced from social reality."  Whatever one thinks of its effectiveness, since when did a presumption that junior-highers and high-schoolers should not be having sex become "nothing but education in religious values?"  Another example is his co-sponsorship of the Workplace Religious Freedom Act (his co-sponsor, she does not mention, is that pawn of the bishops, John Kerry) "which gives workers the right, in their jobs, to refuse to sell products regarding which they have moral objections."  I don't think the Act is wise policy (for other reasons), but I hardly consider legislative respect for individual conscience to be an example of sacrificing "the public good" in service to a "religious agenda."  More broadly, I'm puzzled by the seemingly clear distinction being drawn between the public good and religious values.

Rob