RE: What religion is an 8-day-old?

2012-07-10 Thread Andrew M M Koppelman
...@aol.com] Sent: Monday, July 09, 2012 10:36 AM To: religionlaw@lists.ucla.edu Subject: Re: What religion is an 8-day-old? With all due respect to Andrew, but in complete seriousness, religion is often not a good thing even under the law, and often a deadly and permanently disfiguring or disabling

Re: What religion is an 8-day-old?

2012-07-10 Thread Marci Hamilton
To: religionlaw@lists.ucla.edu Subject: Re: What religion is an 8-day-old? With all due respect to Andrew, but in complete seriousness, religion is often not a good thing even under the law, and often a deadly and permanently disfiguring or disabling thing for children, the disabled, and emotionally

Re: What religion is an 8-day-old?

2012-07-10 Thread Arthur Spitzer
...@lists.ucla.edu [ religionlaw-boun...@lists.ucla.edu] on behalf of hamilto...@aol.com [ hamilto...@aol.com] Sent: Monday, July 09, 2012 10:36 AM To: religionlaw@lists.ucla.edu Subject: Re: What religion is an 8-day-old? With all due respect to Andrew, but in complete seriousness, religion

Re: What religion is an 8-day-old?

2012-07-09 Thread hamilton02
Subject: RE: What religion is an 8-day-old? This discussion is fascinating, but it has a curiously unreal quality, because everyone seems to want, in typically lawyerly fashion, to subsume under some broad and generally applicable principle a practice that is in fact unique and exceedingly

Re: What religion is an 8-day-old?

2012-07-09 Thread Brian Landsberg
There is much we do not know about what the 8 day old boy will want or believe at age 18 or 50? Yet decisions must be made for the child. Normally we trust the parent to act in the child's best interest. We turn the job over to the state only when there is clear evidence that the parents are

RE: What religion is an 8-day-old?

2012-07-09 Thread Volokh, Eugene
[mailto:religionlaw-boun...@lists.ucla.edu] On Behalf Of Brian Landsberg Sent: Monday, July 09, 2012 8:38 PM To: Law Religion issues for Law Academics Cc: Law Religion issues for Law Academics Subject: Re: What religion is an 8-day-old? There is much we do not know about what the 8 day old boy will want or believe