The matter came up during
the floor debates and then-Senator Danforth, who is an Epicopalian priest
expressed outrage that inmates were denied communion wine. I cant
remember which side on the question acted, but the question had something to do
with whether prisoners could be subjected
The animating question was that
prisoners filefrivolous lawsuits on every possible issue. Many
examples were discussed, but no single example was the animating
question.
Douglas Laycock
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We read the materials differently. I
think that there was a clear emphasis on the communion wine question.
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Of course communion wine should be protected by
RLUIPA. Seder wine too. Getting tipsy for Purim probably comes out
the other way; quantities are going tomatter. I think the only
disagreement here was historical -- what did Congress vote on when it rejected
the Reid Amendment to RFRA?
There is always a dangerthat judges will limit
religious liberty on the basis ofanalogies to familiar mainstream
practices. I believe that i was not implicitly relying on such an
analogy. I was talking only about prisoners, andpredicting that
courts would find a compelling interest in not
At 12:11 PM 6/3/05 -0400, you wrote:
Question. In the mainstream branches of Christianity, is there any
holiday where persons have a religious obligation to get drunk. I'm
fairly, though not 100% confident that many Jews believe there is a
religious obligation to drink to excess on Purim.
I am a member of the United Church of God, took those days off when I was in school, and thought I might provide a little background information to the discussion. First it is a religious observance. Religious services are held each of the 8 days. The link that was provided earlier to the
