God Vs The Gavel

Author : Marci A. Hamilton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2005-05-30
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781139445030

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God vs. the Gavel by Marci A. Hamilton Pdf

God vs. the Gavel challenges the pervasive assumption that all religious conduct deserves constitutional protection. While religious conduct provides many benefits to society, it is not always benign. The thesis of the book is that anyone who harms another person should be governed by the laws that govern everyone else - and truth be told, religion is capable of great harm. This may not sound like a radical proposition, but it has been under assault since the 1960s. The majority of academics and many religious organizations would construct a fortress around religious conduct that would make it extremely difficult to prosecute child abuse by clergy, medical neglect of children by faith-healers, and other socially unacceptable behaviors. This book intends to change the course of the public debate over religion by bringing to the public's attention the tactics of religious entities to avoid the law and therefore harm others.

Author : Marci Hamilton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 487 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2014-08-29
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781107087446

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God vs. the Gavel by Marci Hamilton Pdf

This book sets the record straight about the United States' move toward extreme religious liberty and argues for a return to common-sense religious liberty.

Author : Marci A. Hamilton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Clergy
ISBN : 0511128134

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God Vs. the Gavel by Marci A. Hamilton Pdf

God vs. the Gavel challenges the pervasive assumption that all religious conduct deserves constitutional protection. While religious conduct provides many benefits to society, it is not always benign. This book examines the alleged tactics of religious entities to avoid the law and cause harm to others.

Author : Marci A. Hamilton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Clergy
ISBN : 1107440408

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God Vs by Marci A. Hamilton Pdf

Clergy sex abuse, polygamy, children dying from faith healing, companies that refuse to do business with same-sex couples, and residential neighborhoods forced to host homeless shelters - what do all of these have in common? They are all examples of religious believers harming others and demanding religious liberty regardless of the harm. This book unmasks those responsible, explains how this new set of rights is not derived from the First Amendment and argues for a return to common-sense religious liberty. In straightforward, readable prose, God vs. the Gavel: The Perils of Extreme Religious Liberty sets the record straight about the United States' move toward extreme religious liberty. More than half of this thoroughly revised second edition is new content, featuring a new introduction and epilogue and contemporary stories. All Americans need to read this book, before they or their friends and family are harmed by religious believers exercising their newfound rights.

Author : NewsMax Media, Incorporated
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0970402988

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Missing the Mark with Religion by NewsMax Media, Incorporated Pdf

Author : David F. Prindle
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2015-04-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317499374

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The Politics of Evolution by David F. Prindle Pdf

The controversy over teaching evolution or creationism in American public schools offers a policy paradox. Two sets of values—science and democracy—are in conflict when it comes to the question of what to teach in public school biology classes. Prindle illuminates this tension between American public opinion, which clearly prefers that creationism be taught in public school biology classes, versus the ideal that science, and only science, be taught in those classes. An elite consisting of scientists, professional educators, judges, and business leaders by and large are determined to ignore public preferences and teach only science in science classes despite the majority opinion to the contrary. So how have the political process and the Constitutional law establishment managed to thwart the people’s will in this self-proclaimed democracy? Drawing on a vast body of work across the natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities, Prindle explores the rhetoric of the evolution issue, explores its history, examines the nature of the public opinion that causes it, evaluates the Constitutional jurisprudence that upholds it, and explains the political dynamic that keeps it going. This incisive analysis is a must-read in a wide range of disciplines and for anyone who wants to understand the politics of biology.

Author : Russell Blackford
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2012-02-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780470674031

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Freedom of Religion and the Secular State by Russell Blackford Pdf

Exploring the relationship between religion and the state Focusing on the intersection of religion, law, and politics in contemporary liberal democracies, Blackford considers the concept of the secular state, revising and updating enlightenment views for the present day. Freedom of Religion and the Secular State offers a comprehensive analysis, with a global focus, of the subject of religious freedom from a legal as well as historical and philosophical viewpoint. It makes an original contribution to current debates about freedom of religion, and addresses a whole range of hot-button issues that involve the relationship between religion and the state, including the teaching of evolution in schools, what to do about the burqa, and so on.

Author : Mark K. Moller
Publisher : Cato Institute
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Law
ISBN : 1930865805

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Cato Supreme Court Review 2004-2005 by Mark K. Moller Pdf

Annotation. A timely review of the Court's recent decisions.

Author : Douglas Laycock
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 784 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2018-12-18
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781467451369

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Religious Liberty, Volume 4 by Douglas Laycock Pdf

One of the most respected and influential scholars of religious liberty in our time, Douglas Laycock has argued many crucial religious-liberty cases in the United States Supreme Court. His noteworthy scholarly and popular writings are being collected in five comprehensive volumes under the title Religious Liberty. This fourth volume presents a documentary history of the effort to replace the Religious Freedom Restoration Act with the Religious Liberty Protection Act, an effort that failed but led to narrower legislation protecting churches from hostile zoning and protecting the religious rights of prisoners. Documenting culture-war battles over religious liberty and abortion, contraception, and same-sex marriage, this volume includes journal articles, testimony to Congress, shorter popular writings, and letters to such political figures as Congressman Bobby Scott and President Barack Obama.

Author : Christopher L. Eisgruber,Lawrence G. Sager
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2010-04-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780674263260

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Religious Freedom and the Constitution by Christopher L. Eisgruber,Lawrence G. Sager Pdf

Religion has become a charged token in a politics of division. 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. Part of the problem, the authors argue, is that constitutional analysis of religious freedom has been hobbled by the idea of "a wall of separation" between church and state. That metaphor has been understood to demand that religion be treated far better than other concerns in some contexts, and far worse in others. Sometimes it seems to insist on both contrary forms of treatment simultaneously. Missing has been concern for the fair and equal treatment of religion. In response, the authors offer an understanding of religious freedom called Equal Liberty. Equal Liberty is guided by two principles. First, no one within the reach of the Constitution ought to be devalued on account of the spiritual foundation of their commitments. Second, all persons should enjoy broad rights of free speech, personal autonomy, associative freedom, and private property. Together, these principles are generous and fair to a wide range of religious beliefs and practices. With Equal Liberty as their guide, the authors offer practical, moderate, and appealing terms for the settlement of many hot-button issues that have plunged religious freedom into controversy. 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.

Author : Marc O. DeGirolami
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2013-06-10
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780674074156

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The Tragedy of Religious Freedom by Marc O. DeGirolami Pdf

When it comes to questions of religion, legal scholars face a predicament. They often expect to resolve dilemmas according to general principles of equality, neutrality, or the separation of church and state. But such abstractions fail to do justice to the untidy welter of values at stake. Offering new views of how to understand and protect religious freedom in a democracy, The Tragedy of Religious Freedom challenges the idea that matters of law and religion should be referred to far-flung theories about the First Amendment. Examining a broad array of contemporary and more established Supreme Court rulings, Marc DeGirolami explains why conflicts implicating religious liberty are so emotionally fraught and deeply contested. Twenty-first-century realities of pluralism have outrun how scholars think about religious freedom, DeGirolami asserts. Scholars have not been candid enough about the tragic nature of the conflicts over religious liberty—the clash of opposing interests and aspirations they entail, and the limits of human reason to resolve intractable differences. The Tragedy of Religious Freedom seeks to turn our attention from abstracted, absolute values to concrete, historical realities. Social history, characterized by the struggles of lawyers engaged in the details of irreducible conflicts, represents the most promising avenue to negotiate legal conflicts over religion. In this volume, DeGirolami offers an approach to understanding religious liberty that is neither rigidly systematic nor ad hoc, but a middle path grounded in a pluralistic and historically informed perspective.

Author : Shawn Francis Peters
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780195306354

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When Prayer Fails by Shawn Francis Peters Pdf

'When Prayer Fails' examines the web of legal and ethical questions that arise when criminal prosecutions are mounted against parents whose children die as a result of religion-based medical neglect. It explores efforts to balance judicial protections for the religious liberty of faith-healers against the rights of children.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1846
Category : Electronic
ISBN : MINN:31951000733417Y

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The Gavel by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : Electronic
ISBN : IOWA:31858029397415

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The Masonic Review by Anonim Pdf

Author : Edward A. Zelinsky
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-27
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780190853976

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Taxing the Church by Edward A. Zelinsky Pdf

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.