RE: Minneapolis Taxicab Controversy

2012-03-12 Thread Sisk, Gregory C.
Thanks very much! This is good to know. Our piece on Muslim religious liberty in the federal courts was accepted at the Iowa Law Review on Friday, so it has a home now. Greg From: religionlaw-boun...@lists.ucla.edu [religionlaw-boun...@lists.ucla.edu] on

RE: Basketball tournaments on the Sabbath

2012-03-12 Thread b...@jmcenter.org
Rick, Smith did not gut free exercise for any one. Rather, it recognized that equality, rather than privilege, is the core American value. To accommodate one group (or person) typically results in inconveniencing others. The proper solution under the First Amendment, it seems to me, is to schedule

RE: Discrimination against people with religious motivations for their actions

2012-03-12 Thread Volokh, Eugene
Steve writes that religious motivation matters, for purposes of making an action taken with religious motivation illegal when the same action taken with secular motivation is legal. I see no basis for that in antidiscrimination law, which generally bans discrimination against