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Book Synopsis Religious Exemptions by : Kevin Vallier
Download or read book Religious Exemptions written by Kevin Vallier and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Defending American Religious Neutrality by : Andrew Koppelman
Download or read book Defending American Religious Neutrality written by Andrew Koppelman and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Perfecting Religious Exemption from Vaccination by : Dr. Robert Caires DC Esq.
Download or read book Perfecting Religious Exemption from Vaccination written by Dr. Robert Caires DC Esq. and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2019-01-14 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Legal Analysis of Religious Exemptions for Photo Identification Requirements by : Cynthia Brougher
Download or read book Legal Analysis of Religious Exemptions for Photo Identification Requirements written by Cynthia Brougher and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis When Religious and Secular Interests Collide by : Scott A. Merriman
Download or read book When Religious and Secular Interests Collide written by Scott A. Merriman and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2017-09-15 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Religious Exemptions and Expressions by : Leopold Selvaggio
Download or read book Religious Exemptions and Expressions written by Leopold Selvaggio and published by Nova Science Publishers. This book was released on 2014-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Taxing the Church by : Edward A. Zelinsky
Download or read book Taxing the Church written by Edward A. Zelinsky and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-09-27 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis A General Right to Conscientious Exemption by : John Adenitire
Download or read book A General Right to Conscientious Exemption written by John Adenitire and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-07-16 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sustained argument that a general right to conscientious exemption should be equally available to religious and non-religious objectors alike.
Book Synopsis The Church of Exemptions by : Luis Granados
Download or read book The Church of Exemptions written by Luis Granados and published by Humanist Press. This book was released on 2019-02-25 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Taxing the Church by : Edward A. Zelinsky
Download or read book Taxing the Church written by Edward A. Zelinsky and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Federal Constitutionall Law on taxation and religion -- State Consitutions on religion and taxation -- The Internal revenue Code and religious institutions -- State tax statutes and religious exemptions -- Untangling entanglement -- Parsonages, parsonage allowances, and the religious exemptions from Social Security Taxes and the Health Care mandate -- Other issues for the future : Churches' lobbying, campaigning, and sales taxation -- Constitutional and tax policy issues
Book Synopsis Law, Religion, and Health in the United States by : Holly Fernandez Lynch
Download or read book Law, Religion, and Health in the United States written by Holly Fernandez Lynch and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-07-03 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the critical role of law in protecting - and protecting against - religious beliefs in American health care.
Book Synopsis The Religion Clauses by : Erwin Chemerinsky
Download or read book The Religion Clauses written by Erwin Chemerinsky and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The relationship between the government and religion is deeply divisive. With the recent changes in the composition of the Supreme Court, the First Amendment law concerning religion is likely to change dramatically in the years ahead. The Court can be expected to reject the idea of a wall separating church and state and permit much more religious involvement in government and government support for religion. The Court is also likely to expand the rights of religious people to ignore legal obligations that others have to follow, such laws that require the provision of health care benefits to employees and prohibit businesses from discriminating against people because of their sexual orientation. This book argues for the opposite and the need for separating church and state. After carefully explaining all the major approaches to the meaning of the Constitution's religion clauses, the book argues that the best approaches are for the government to be strictly secular and for there to be no special exemptions for religious people from neutral and general laws that others must obey. The book argues that this separationist approach is most consistent with the concerns of the founders who drafted the Constitution and with the needs of a religiously pluralistic society in the 21st century"--
Book Synopsis The Constitutional Case for Religious Exemptions from Federal Vaccine Mandates by : George J. Gatgounis
Download or read book The Constitutional Case for Religious Exemptions from Federal Vaccine Mandates written by George J. Gatgounis and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2022-11-03 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Constitutional Case for Religious Exemptions from Federal Vaccine Mandates by the Rev. Dr. George Gatgounis, Esq., leads off with a legal brief by attorney Gatgounis arguing why mandating a vaccine despite a religious objection of an individual is unconstitutional. This very thorough volume also includes an extensive digest of South Carolina legal cases regarding religion and the full text of several other key lawsuits also arguing against forcing vaccines despite religious objections.
Book Synopsis Debating Religious Liberty and Discrimination by : John Corvino
Download or read book Debating Religious Liberty and Discrimination written by John Corvino and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-04-14 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis State of Immunity by : James Colgrove
Download or read book State of Immunity written by James Colgrove and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2006-10-05 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first comprehensive history of the social and political aspects of vaccination in the United States tells the story of how vaccination became a widely accepted public health measure over the course of the twentieth century. One hundred years ago, just a handful of vaccines existed, and only one, for smallpox, was widely used. Today more than two dozen vaccines are in use, fourteen of which are universally recommended for children. State of Immunity examines the strategies that health officials have used—ranging from advertising and public relations campaigns to laws requiring children to be immunized before they can attend school—to gain public acceptance of vaccines. Like any medical intervention, vaccination carries a small risk of adverse reactions. But unlike other procedures, it is performed on healthy people, most commonly children, and has been mandated by law. Vaccination thus poses unique ethical, political, and legal questions. James Colgrove considers how individual liberty should be balanced against the need to protect the common welfare, how experts should act in the face of incomplete or inconsistent scientific information, and how the public should be involved in these decisions. A well-researched, intelligent, and balanced look at a timely topic, this book explores these issues through a vivid historical narrative that offers new insights into the past, present, and future of vaccination.
Book Synopsis Religious Beliefs and Conscientious Exemptions in a Liberal State by : John Adenitire
Download or read book Religious Beliefs and Conscientious Exemptions in a Liberal State written by John Adenitire and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-06-13 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The central focus of this edited collection is on the ever-growing practice, in liberal states, to claim exemption from legal duties on the basis of a conscientious objection. Traditional claims have included objections to compulsory military draft and to the provision of abortions. Contemporary claims include objections to anti-discrimination law by providers of public services, such as bakers and B&B hoteliers, who do not want to serve same-sex couples. The book investigates the practice, both traditional and contemporary, from three distinct perspectives: theoretical, doctrinal (with special emphasis on UK, Canadian and US law) and comparative. Cumulatively, the contributors provide a comprehensive set of reflections on how the practice is to be viewed and carried out in the context of a liberal state.
Book Synopsis Legal Analysis of Religious Exemptions for Photo Identification Requirements by : Cynthia Brougher
Download or read book Legal Analysis of Religious Exemptions for Photo Identification Requirements written by Cynthia Brougher and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report analyzes the legal issues associated with religious exemptions to photo identification laws. Although no lawsuits appear to have challenged federal laws with photo requirements, state photo identification laws have been challenged for several decades.
