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Author: Kevin Vallier Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0190666188 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 329
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Religious exemptions have a long history in American law, but have become especially controversial over the last several years. The essays in this volume address the moral and philosophical issues that the legal practice of religious exemptions often raises.
Author: Kevin Vallier Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0190666188 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 329
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Religious exemptions have a long history in American law, but have become especially controversial over the last several years. The essays in this volume address the moral and philosophical issues that the legal practice of religious exemptions often raises.
Author: Andrew Koppelman Publisher: Harvard University Press ISBN: 0674071077 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 316
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Although it is often charged with hostility toward religion, First Amendment doctrine in fact treats religion as a distinctive human good. It insists, however, that this good be understood abstractly, without the state taking sides on any theological question. Here, a leading scholar of constitutional law explains the logic of this uniquely American form of neutrality—more religion-centered than liberal theorists propose, and less overtly theistic than conservatives advocate. The First Amendment’s guarantee of freedom of religion is under threat. Growing numbers of critics, including a near-majority of the Supreme Court, seem ready to cast aside the ideal of American religious neutrality. Andrew Koppelman defends that ideal and explains why protecting religion from political manipulation is imperative in an America of growing religious diversity. Understanding American religious neutrality, Koppelman shows, can explain some familiar puzzles. How can Bible reading in public schools be impermissible while legislative sessions begin with prayers, Christmas is an official holiday, and the words “under God” appear in the Pledge of Allegiance? Are faith-based social services, public financing of religious schools, or the teaching of intelligent design constitutional? Combining legal, historical, and philosophical analysis, Koppelman shows how law coherently navigates these conundrums. He explains why laws must have a secular legislative purpose, why old, but not new, ceremonial acknowledgments of religion are permitted, and why it is fair to give religion special treatment.
Author: Dr. Robert Caires DC Esq. Publisher: iUniverse ISBN: 1532053401 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 164
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This book will enlighten you about the negative to health consequences of injecting unnatural to human biology chemicals however, the book mainly concentrates on Perfecting Religious Exemption from Vaccination. If vaccination violates your religion you should not be enforced to vaccinate. Religious Exemption from vaccination allows for the Free Exercise of Religion and thereby, secures Freedom of Religion as, is required under the Constitution. If you do not want your children vaccinated because it is against your religion this book can help you perfect a Religious Exemption from vaccination.
Author: Edward A. Zelinsky Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0190853964 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 272
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This book explores the taxation and exemption of churches and other religious institutions, both empirically and normatively. This exploration reveals that churches and other religious institutions are treated diversely by the federal and state tax systems. Sectarian institutions pay more tax than many believe. In important respects, the states differ among themselves in their respective approaches to the taxation of sectarian entities. Either taxing or exempting churches and other sectarian entities entangles church and state. The taxes to which churches are more frequently subject - federal Social Security and Medicare taxes, sales taxes, real estate conveyance taxes - fall on the less entangling end of the spectrum. The taxes from which religious institutions are exempt - general income taxes, value-based property taxes, unemployment taxes - are typically taxes with the greatest potential for church-state enforcement entanglement. It is unpersuasive to reflexively denounce the tax exemption of religious actors and institutions as a subsidy. Tax exemption can implement the secular, non-subsidizing goal of minimizing church-state enforcement entanglement and thus be regarded as part of a normative tax base. Taxing the church or exempting the church involves often difficult trade-offs among competing and legitimate values. On balance, our federal system of decentralized legislation reasonably make these legal and tax policy trade-offs, though there is room for improvement in particular settings such as the protection of internal church communications and the expansion of the churches' sales tax liabilities.
Author: John Adenitire Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 110847845X Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 335
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A sustained argument that a general right to conscientious exemption should be equally available to religious and non-religious objectors alike.
Author: Cynthia Brougher Publisher: DIANE Publishing ISBN: 1437939457 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 14
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This is a print on demand edition of a hard to find publication. The 111th Congress has considered the issue of possible exemptions to fed. photo ID requirements. Contents of this report: (1) Legal Protections for Religious Exercise: Free Exercise Clause; Religious Freedom Restoration Act; (2) Religious Objections to Photo ID Requirements: Analysis of Religious Objections to Photo Requirements; Judicial Considerations in State Driver¿s License Exemption Claims; Strictness of the Underlying Religious Doctrine; Avail. of Other Exemptions or Alternative Methods of ID; (3) Is an Exemption Required for Fed. ID Requirements?; Lawsuits Challenging Photo Requirements; Lawsuits Challenging Photo Requirements Post-9/11; Potential Exemptions to Fed. Photo Requirements.
Author: Scott A. Merriman Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA ISBN: Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 258
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This book examines the countervailing arguments in the religious exemption debate and explains why this issue continues to be so heated and controversial in modern-day America. Can religion be used to legalize discrimination? When does religion exclude a person or corporation from having to follow a federal or state law, and does our government automatically favor one faith over another when allowing such exemptions? How "religious" must an activity be to qualify as exempt? These are just a few of the difficult questions addressed in When Religious and Secular Interests Collide: Faith, Law, and the Religious Exemption Debate, one of the most modern resources for looking at religion and the law, both historically and in the present. This book enables readers to fully comprehend this important multifaceted issue that continues to be contested in our courts, legislatures, hearts, and minds. Readers will gain vital historical background about this battleground topic of academic and public interest, see how the contentious issue has changed in the past, and learn about recent developments, including the controversies surrounding religious exemption laws passed in Arkansas and Indiana in 2015. They will also glean knowledge to evaluate claims made about the First Amendment and equal rights and reach their own educated opinions on the subject. Additionally, the work includes primary source documents such as excerpts of important Supreme Court decisions accompanied by insightful analysis of how the religious exemption issue surfaced in modern American culture.
Author: Leopold Selvaggio Publisher: Nova Science Publishers ISBN: 9781631178337 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 0
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This book examines the constitutional and statutory protections related to free exercise of religion, including current Supreme Court interpretations, as well as judicial and legislative avoidance of defining the parameters of religious belief. It also discusses significant examples of existing religious exemptions in current law, including employment non-discrimination, health care, and public accommodations law. It analyses recent federal judicial decisions that have considered the religious freedom rights of commercial entities whose owners have religious objections to the contraceptive coverage requirement. The book then continues to discuss church and campaign activity; legal issues associated with religious exemptions to photo identification laws; and prayer and religious expression in public institutions.
Author: Luis Granados Publisher: Humanist Press ISBN: 0931779812 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 320
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A jaded young lawyer starts a church on a lark, to exploit the growing trend of religious exemptions from common-sense laws. He stumbles into backing from a curmudgeonly billionaire and a powerful K Street law firm, leading to success beyond his wildest dreams. His “Secret Plan,” as he calls it, is to self-destruct by carrying the basic concept of religious privilege that he despises to (and well past) a logical extreme. But the self-destruction unfolds in a way he did not envision, as he is sucked steadily deeper into a quagmire of deceit. Luis Granados, author of Damned Good Company, co-editor of A Jefferson Bible for the Twenty-first Century, and “Rules Are for Schmucks” columnist for TheHumanist.com takes us on a wild ride to a place let’s hope we never reach. Footnotes, unusual for a novel, are included to let skeptical readers know how bizarre the world of religious legal privilege has already become.
Author: John Corvino Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0190603089 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 288
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Virtually everyone supports religious liberty, and virtually everyone opposes discrimination. But how do we handle the hard questions that arise when exercises of religious liberty seem to discriminate unjustly? How do we promote the common good while respecting conscience in a diverse society? This point-counterpoint book brings together leading voices in the culture wars to debate such questions: John Corvino, a longtime LGBT-rights advocate, opposite Ryan T. Anderson and Sherif Girgis, prominent young social conservatives. Many such questions have arisen in response to same-sex marriage: How should we treat county clerks who do not wish to authorize such marriages, for example; or bakers, florists, and photographers who do not wish to provide same-sex wedding services? But the conflicts extend well beyond the LGBT rights arena. How should we treat hospitals, schools, and adoption agencies that can't in conscience follow antidiscrimination laws, healthcare mandates, and other regulations? Should corporations ever get exemptions? Should public officials? Should we keep controversial laws like the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, or pass new ones like the First Amendment Defense Act? Should the law give religion and conscience special protection at all, and if so, why? What counts as discrimination, and when is it unjust? What kinds of material and dignitary harms should the law try to fight-and what is dignitary harm, anyway? Beyond the law, how should we treat religious beliefs and practices we find mistaken or even oppressive? Should we tolerate them or actively discourage them? In point-counterpoint format, Corvino, Anderson and Girgis explore these questions and more. Although their differences run deep, they tackle them with civility, clarity, and flair. Their debate is an essential contribution to contemporary discussions about why religious liberty matters and what respecting it requires.
Author: Kevin Vallier
Author: Kevin Vallier
Author: Andrew Koppelman
Author: Dr. Robert Caires DC Esq.
Author: Edward A. Zelinsky
Author: John Adenitire
Author: Cynthia Brougher
Author: Scott A. Merriman
Author: Leopold Selvaggio
Author: Luis Granados
Author: John Corvino