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2012-07-07 Thread Alan Brownstein
] on behalf of Christopher Lund [l...@wayne.edu] Sent: Friday, July 06, 2012 10:59 AM To: 'Law Religion issues for Law Academics' Subject: RE: Parental rights and physical conduct Yes (to Marty.) I’m someone inclined toward Marty’s view, and I think the empirical question of regret is very

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2012-07-06 Thread Scarberry, Mark
? Mark Mark S. Scarberry Professor of Law Pepperdine Univ. School of Law From: religionlaw-boun...@lists.ucla.edu [mailto:religionlaw-boun...@lists.ucla.edu] On Behalf Of Ira Lupu Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2012 2:45 PM To: Law Religion issues for Law Academics Subject: Re: Parental rights

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2012-07-06 Thread hamilton02
, Jul 5, 2012 11:28 pm Subject: RE: Parental rights and physical conduct I agree that the danger to infants from full immersion baptism is very low and perhaps zero; the hypothetical was that it happened in a handful of cases, but I think that's just a hypothetical. As to what burdens

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2012-07-06 Thread Marci Hamilton
Academics Subject: Re: Parental rights and physical conduct I am wondering if Marci thinks Troxel v. Granville (unconstitutional for legislature to provide for grandparent visitation rights over objection of custodial parent) is correctly decided, or consistent with her views. Her assertion

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2012-07-06 Thread hamilton02
) 790-0215 hamilto...@aol.com -Original Message- From: Friedman, Howard M. howard.fried...@utoledo.edu To: Law Religion issues for Law Academics religionlaw@lists.ucla.edu Sent: Thu, Jul 5, 2012 3:47 pm Subject: RE: Parental rights and physical conduct Many would argue

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2012-07-06 Thread Paul Horwitz
This has been a very interesting discussion. I confess that at this point, I am quite confused about the meaning of best interests of the child. I understand it is a complex, context-driven, and multivalent test. But it would certainly help to understand the foundational values and defaults

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2012-07-06 Thread Richard Dougherty
I am with Paul in my confusion, and will add only a further question. If we accept the principle that the best interests of the child prevails, does that mean that judges and not parents will always have the decisive say? (As a parent, for example, I think I am always acting in the best interest

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2012-07-06 Thread Christopher Lund
Subject: RE: Parental rights and physical conduct This has been a very interesting discussion. I confess that at this point, I am quite confused about the meaning of best interests of the child. I understand it is a complex, context-driven, and multivalent test. But it would certainly help

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2012-07-06 Thread Ira Lupu
Academics *Subject:* Re: Parental rights and physical conduct ** ** If Smith's hybrid rights explanation of Yoder is all there is against my argument that religious motivation should add or subtract nothing from parental rights to engage in particular child-rearing practices, I'll happily

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2012-07-06 Thread Volokh, Eugene
: religionlaw-boun...@lists.ucla.edu [mailto:religionlaw-boun...@lists.ucla.edu] On Behalf Of Christopher Lund Sent: Friday, July 06, 2012 9:07 AM To: 'Law Religion issues for Law Academics' Subject: RE: Parental rights and physical conduct Yes, I'm feeling some of the same confusion as Paul. I don't know

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2012-07-06 Thread Marty Lederman
:* religionlaw-boun...@lists.ucla.edu [mailto: religionlaw-boun...@lists.ucla.edu] *On Behalf Of *Christopher Lund *Sent:* Friday, July 06, 2012 9:07 AM *To:* 'Law Religion issues for Law Academics' *Subject:* RE: Parental rights and physical conduct ** ** Yes, I’m feeling some

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2012-07-06 Thread Christopher Lund
for Law Academics Subject: Re: Parental rights and physical conduct Eugene's tattoo example is very helpful for teeing up what has seemed to me to be the important distinction here (one I've tried to stress in my earlier posts): I think one big reason that most of us, unlike Eugene, are opposed

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2012-07-06 Thread wlinden2
But that is invoking a non-Jewish standard of Jewishness (and I speak as someone intensely exasperated by refusal to acknowledge any distinction between ethnic and religious Jewishness.*) Someone can say I spit on G_d, I spit on Torah, I spit on halakhah.; He can spend Sabbath behind a desk, and

RE: RE: Parental rights and physical conduct

2012-07-06 Thread Volokh, Eugene
...@verizon.net Sent: Friday, July 06, 2012 11:02 AM To: religionlaw@lists.ucla.edu Subject: Re: RE: Parental rights and physical conduct But that is invoking a non-Jewish standard of Jewishness (and I speak as someone intensely exasperated by refusal to acknowledge any distinction between ethnic

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2012-07-06 Thread Volokh, Eugene
of other things. Eugene From: religionlaw-boun...@lists.ucla.edu [mailto:religionlaw-boun...@lists.ucla.edu] On Behalf Of Ira Lupu Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2012 8:07 AM To: Law Religion issues for Law Academics Subject: Re: Parental rights and physical conduct I don't know why we should be limited

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2012-07-05 Thread Volokh, Eugene
This raises a fascinating and practically very important question (because there are more than 10 times as many American parents who authorize circumcision for nonreligious reasons than for religious reasons): Do Meyer/Pierce rights extend to the right to raise one's child in

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2012-07-05 Thread Ira Lupu
I don't know why we should be limited to the particulars of Supreme Court decisions when we think about this. I suggest that the approach I outlined is deeply embedded in the statutory and judge-made law of all the states. And, if I'm right about, then the relevant constitutional doctrines of

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2012-07-05 Thread Friedman, Howard M.
, Eugene Sent: Thu 7/5/2012 10:57 AM To: Law Religion issues for Law Academics Subject: Parental rights and physical conduct This raises a fascinating and practically very important question (because there are more than 10 times as many American parents who authorize circumcision

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2012-07-05 Thread Volokh, Eugene
, July 05, 2012 8:52 AM To: Law Religion issues for Law Academics Subject: RE: Parental rights and physical conduct What has been absent from all of the discussion on this issue is the importance to Jewish belief of circumcision while the son is an infant. This ceremony at 8-days of age (except

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2012-07-05 Thread Eric Rassbach
. From: religionlaw-boun...@lists.ucla.edu [religionlaw-boun...@lists.ucla.edu] On Behalf Of Ira Lupu [icl...@law.gwu.edu] Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2012 11:07 AM To: Law Religion issues for Law Academics Subject: Re: Parental rights and physical conduct I don't know why we

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2012-07-05 Thread Eric Rassbach
, Eugene [vol...@law.ucla.edu] Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2012 12:31 PM To: Law Religion issues for Law Academics Subject: RE: Parental rights and physical conduct I appreciate Howard’s point, but the question is: Why should some children who by definition do not share a religious belief

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2012-07-05 Thread Ira Lupu
Of *Friedman, Howard M. *Sent:* Thursday, July 05, 2012 8:52 AM *To:* Law Religion issues for Law Academics *Subject:* RE: Parental rights and physical conduct ** ** What has been absent from all of the discussion on this issue is the importance to Jewish belief of circumcision while the son

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2012-07-05 Thread Alan Brownstein
@lists.ucla.edu [religionlaw-bounces+aebrownstein=ucdavis@lists.ucla.edu] on behalf of Ira Lupu [icl...@law.gwu.edu] Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2012 9:50 AM To: Law Religion issues for Law Academics Subject: Re: Parental rights and physical conduct I think Howard's baptism example helps make my

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2012-07-05 Thread Brian Landsberg
: Thursday, July 05, 2012 11:21 AM To: Law Religion issues for Law Academics Subject: RE: Parental rights and physical conduct I thought we were long past the argument that the only basis for protecting religious liberty was that the state had a favorable perspective on the religious belief

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2012-07-05 Thread Ira Lupu
*To:* Law Religion issues for Law Academics *Subject:* Re: Parental rights and physical conduct I think Howard's baptism example helps make my point, not his. No one thinks that full immersion of children in water for a very brief time (e.g., long enough to quickly rinse shampoo out of their hair

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2012-07-05 Thread Eric Rassbach
, 2012 2:42 PM To: Law Religion issues for Law Academics Subject: Re: Parental rights and physical conduct In the context of abuse of children, religion just does not and should not matter to the state. There are three general cases: 1. The conduct is abusive per se (e.g., repeated and heavy

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2012-07-05 Thread Alan Brownstein
Academics Subject: Re: Parental rights and physical conduct In the context of abuse of children, religion just does not and should not matter to the state. There are three general cases: 1. The conduct is abusive per se (e.g., repeated and heavy beatings of a child). We don't and should not care

Re: Parental rights and physical conduct

2012-07-05 Thread Ira Lupu
From: religionlaw-boun...@lists.ucla.edu [ religionlaw-boun...@lists.ucla.edu] On Behalf Of Volokh, Eugene [ vol...@law.ucla.edu] Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2012 12:31 PM To: Law Religion issues for Law Academics Subject: RE: Parental rights and physical conduct I

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2012-07-05 Thread Friedman, Howard M.
on the question of risk? Howard -Original Message- From: religionlaw-boun...@lists.ucla.edu on behalf of Marci Hamilton Sent: Thu 7/5/2012 2:59 PM To: Law Religion issues for Law Academics Cc: Law Religion issues for Law Academics Subject: Re: Parental rights and physical conduct I would like

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2012-07-05 Thread Ira Lupu
If Smith's hybrid rights explanation of Yoder is all there is against my argument that religious motivation should add or subtract nothing from parental rights to engage in particular child-rearing practices, I'll happily rest my case. All I'm suggesting is that once we have a general set of

Re: Parental rights and physical conduct

2012-07-05 Thread Marci Hamilton
From: religionlaw-boun...@lists.ucla.edu [religionlaw-boun...@lists.ucla.edu] On Behalf Of Volokh, Eugene [vol...@law.ucla.edu] Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2012 12:31 PM To: Law Religion issues for Law Academics Subject: RE: Parental rights and physical conduct

RE: Parental rights and physical conduct

2012-07-05 Thread Alan Brownstein
...@lists.ucla.edu] on behalf of Ira Lupu [icl...@law.gwu.edu] Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2012 2:44 PM To: Law Religion issues for Law Academics Subject: Re: Parental rights and physical conduct If Smith's hybrid rights explanation of Yoder is all there is against my argument that religious motivation should

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2012-07-05 Thread Ira Lupu
Religion issues for Law Academics Subject: RE: Parental rights and physical conduct I appreciate Howard’s point, but the question is: Why should some children who by definition do not share a religious belief drown – or otherwise be injured – for the sake of the beliefs

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2012-07-05 Thread Marci Hamilton
-boun...@lists.ucla.edu [religionlaw-boun...@lists.ucla.edu] On Behalf Of Volokh, Eugene [vol...@law.ucla.edu] Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2012 12:31 PM To: Law Religion issues for Law Academics Subject: RE: Parental rights and physical conduct I appreciate Howard’s point

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2012-07-05 Thread Eric Rassbach
-boun...@lists.ucla.edumailto:religionlaw-boun...@lists.ucla.edu] On Behalf Of Friedman, Howard M. Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2012 8:52 AM To: Law Religion issues for Law Academics Subject: RE: Parental rights and physical conduct What has been absent from all of the discussion on this issue

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2012-07-05 Thread Volokh, Eugene
, July 05, 2012 11:35 AM To: Law Religion issues for Law Academics Subject: RE: Parental rights and physical conduct Let me try again. The discussion has focused on the rights of the parents and of the state. The children have come into the discussion only as objects of control or protection

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2012-07-05 Thread Volokh, Eugene
9:43 AM To: Law Religion issues for Law Academics Subject: RE: Parental rights and physical conduct Eugene -- I don't think this makes sense because it posits an impossible universe of zero-risk parenting. It is far riskier to drive your child on the freeway (not to mention take him

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2012-07-05 Thread Eric Rassbach
Religion issues for Law Academics Subject: RE: Parental rights and physical conduct I agree that the danger to infants from full immersion baptism is very low and perhaps zero; the hypothetical was that it happened in a handful of cases, but I think that's just a hypothetical. As to what