…that covered the head, but the Constitutional Court declared this ban unlawful. The decisions of international bodies on this issue are contradictory: the European Court of Human Rights has held…
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…though it does not appear that the organization is recognized by the IRS. The Supreme Court has never adopted a constitutional definition of religion. Increasing religious pluralism, considered to be…
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…how deeply it understands this dimension of humanity. As the late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia rightly observed of freedom of conscience in his last public appearance, it is…
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…the case. The question before that court was whether the municipality unlawfully excluded low- and moderate-income families through its zoning regulations, and the court found that the municipality did indeed…
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…the Christian natural law tradition. Like every eighteenth-century Supreme Court justice (with one exception), he believed that a judge may appropriately declare a statute to be void if it conflicts…
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…was bound to meet with challenge as the United States developed into a more religiously diverse and pluralist country. The great showdown finally came in the 1940 U.S. Supreme Court…
“The Admissibility of Christian Pro-Life Politics” by Matthew P. Cavedon
…and a senior lecturer in law, at Emory University. He is a former public defender and was a law clerk for a United States district court and the Supreme Court…
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