The TAPPS website, http://www.tapps.net/, indicates that they agreed
to let Beren play when presented with the papers, before they were
actually filed. But the lawyer who signed the complaint -- which
included the application for the TRO -- confirmed to me that the
papers were indeed filed.
Some of you may have seen the story in the Times the other day about the
Beren Hebrew Academy in Houston, whose basketball team has reached the state
semi-finals of the Texas Association of Private and Parochial Schools
tournament. The semifinal game was scheduled for tonight; the Academy is
http://radio.foxnews.com/toddstarnes/top-stories/lawsuit-university-ordered
-christian-club-to-allow-non-christian-leaders.html
http://radio.foxnews.com/toddstarnes/top-stories/lawsuit-university-ordered-
christian-club-to-allow-non-christian-leaders.html
From what I understand and have learned
A somewhat similar lawsuit was litigated by students attending the Portland
Adventist Academy (and their parents) against the Oregon State Activities
Association which is a state actor. After 8 years of litigation, the students
succeeded in their state anti-discrimination claims. See Nakashima
My apologies for the delay replying to Mark's response. Two quick thoughts:
(1) Mark's response is carefully tailored to the manslaughter hypothetical,
but doesn't deal with the claimed testimonial privilege hypothetical, the
antidiscrimination law hypothetical, the copyright law
This morning's story in the Times confirms the unreconstructed Texans
theory. It looks like the conservative evangelical schools have taken
control of this organization, and tolerance of diversity has never been one
of their strengths.
Douglas Laycock
Robert E. Scott Distinguished Professor of
Lots of Catholics go to Saturday evening mass. Relevant?
On Mar 3, 2012, at 2:55 PM, Alan Armstrong alanarmstrong@verizon.net
wrote:
My understanding is that Jewish and 7th day adventists consider sabbath as
going from sundown on Friday to sundown on Saturday. I do not know of any
The trouble with “common sense” is that it often points in
different directions. Common sense tells us there is real value to following
rules with no exceptions, so that one doesn’t have to later deal with questions
of “you accommodated them, why don’t you accommodate” us (even
If only common sense -- and an accommodating spirit, respect for religious
liberty, a tolerance and even appreciation for diversity and pluralism -- of
the kind that seems to have won the day with the TAPP, and that most on this
list are (rightly) celebrating, were playing a similar role in the
I'm sure it goes without saying that Rick is
incorrect about Smith. It did not gut anything
It was a case of first impression in the Court's
eyes and rightly so. That is what the
historical record at the Court establishes
clearly. Folks can dislike Smith but lets
at least nuance the
Say what? Although I'm a member of this list, I don't follow the law
in this area closely, but I know enough that Smith limited Sherbert
-- or at least it sure appeared to do so, and Congress sure thought
so in purporting to restore religious freedoms after Smith. I assume
Marci has a
Well, I thought the e-mail below was going only to one person. So let me
provide more context for the comment.
Of course there are many tolerant people in the evangelical movement,
including lawyers who do great work on behalf of religious liberty for all.
They understand that religious liberty
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