Religious Freedom and the Constitution
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| Rating | : | 4.83 (956 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0674023056 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 352 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-09-30 |
| Language | : | English |
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Copyright © 2007 Click here to subscribe to The New Yorker. The authors proceed patiently and sensibly through considerations of crèche displays, conscientious objectors, ritual animal slaughter, and peyote smoking. Free religious expression thus becomes largely a function of other freedoms—like those of speech and association. From The New Yorker The authors argue that the "wall of separation" between church and state is a clumsy metaphor that, in the past sixty years, has repeatedly led courts into "jurisprudential quicksand." In its place, they offer a principle that they call equal liberty, which diverts attention from "imponderable questions about the goodness of religion" and focusses it on individual cases. Their recommendations may prove more useful
"Equal Liberty: A Path Between Strict Separation and Accommodation" according to Doughlas Remy. Religious Freedom"Religious freedom," if properly understood, should be a principle that everyone can embrace. It encompasses freedom to practice one's religion, freedom in matters of religion (e.g., freedom from religion), and, more broadly, freedom in matters of conscience. An. Why Are Liberals Liberals About 10 years ago, the American Civil Liberties Union filed three federal lawsuits against four counties in Kentucky alleging a violation of the First Amendment's Establishment Clause for displaying the Ten Commandments in courthouses. The ACLU won all three of the lawsuits in
In disputes about faith-based social services, public money for religious schools, the Pledge of Allegiance, Ten Commandments monuments, the theory of evolution, and many other topics, angry contestation threatens to displace America's historic commitment to religious freedom. Second, all persons should enjoy broad rights of free speech, personal autonomy, associative freedom, and private property. Their book calls Americans back to the project of finding fair terms of cooperation for a religiously diverse people, and it offers a valuable set of tools for working toward that end.. Sometimes it seems to insist on both contrary forms of treatment simultaneously. Religion has become a charged token in a politics of division. Missing has been concern for the fair and equal treatment of religion. That metaphor has been understood to demand that religion be treated far better than other concerns in some contexts, and far worse in others. In response, the authors offer an understanding of religious freedom called Equal Liberty. Equal Liberty is guided by two principles. Together, these principles are generou
. Sager is Dean of the University of Texas at Austin School of Law. Christopher L. Eisgruber is Provost of Princeton University.Lawrence G