…is hard to find much nuance. The second reason that Masterpiece Cakeshop frustrates me is that the Supreme Court tells us almost nothing useful. Instead of a constitutional analysis, Justice…
“Should Assisted Suicide Be Legalized? A Jewish Perspective ” by Aryeh Klapper
…Not Supreme Value The “Equally Red Blood” principle is necessary to ban murder for self-preservation because Jewish tradition otherwise treats lifesaving as an almost supreme value; it allows the violation…
“REVIEW: The Cambridge Companion to the First Amendment and Religious Liberty” by Breidenbach and Anderson
…century American history. Zoë Robinson turns to the Supreme Court itself, which first interpreted the First Amendment’s Religion Clauses in the late nineteenth century and did not begin to develop…
“How Is Eastern Christianity Affecting Pope Francis’s Priorities?” by Matthew Cavedon
…for a United States district court and the Supreme Court of Georgia. Recommended Citation Cavedon, Matthew. “How Is Eastern Christianity Affecting Pope Francis’s Priorities?” Canopy Forum, January 26, 2023. https://canopyforum.org/2023/01/26/how-is-eastern-christianity-affecting-pope-franciss-priorities/…
“Johnson v. M’Intosh, Wi Parata v. Bishop of Wellington, and the Legacy of the Doctrine of Discovery in Aotearoa-New Zealand” by Tina Ngata
…supreme court and by the court of appeal in In Re: the Ninety-Mile Beach can be explained only on the basis that they were applying the approach taken in Wi…
“Faith in Interpretation” by Aaron J. Walayat
…polemic of taking the specific religious faiths (religious affiliations) of Supreme Court justices, reducing these affiliations to political opinions, and construing these observations with the justice’s interpretive ideology. More esoterically,…
“Judge Not: The Problem with Georgia’s Charge about Religious Objection to Jury Service” by Matthew P. Cavedon
…sense.” This confuses a judge for a theologian, and in other contexts, this is roundly rejected. For instance, a few years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court decided that for-profit companies…
“Subjective Beliefs, Social Judgments, and Witch Killers” by Matthew P. Cavedon
…plurality of the U.S. Supreme Court held: “At the heart of liberty is the right to define one’s own concept of existence, of meaning, of the universe, and of the…
“Section 230 and the Millstone” by Mark Edward Blankenship Jr.
…the encouragement of the growth and development of online businesses; and the prevention of minors from gaining access to indecent and pornographic online material. One year later, the Supreme Court…
“Houses of Worship after Closure and Sale: Recognizing the Enduring ‘Readability’ of Religious Meaning” by Angela C. Carmela
…The new “Jesuit Urban Center” was up and running in 1990 when Society of Jesus v. Boston Landmarks Commission came down from the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts. The court…