Religious exemption regime limited to communal religious practices or tenets

2004-05-18 Thread Volokh, Eugene
State v. Pedersen, 2004 WL 1093320 (Minn. App. Aug. 18), rejects Pedersen's claims of a state constitutional exemption from a marijuana ban, because the panel concludes that appellant's beliefs about marijuana use are personal beliefs rather than communal religious practices or tenets.

RE: RE: Medical workers who don't want to participate in abortion s

2004-05-18 Thread Berg, Thomas C.
Alan raises a fair point with his hypothetical law giving everyone the right to take Sunday off if s/he wants. Facial neutrality might well not be enough in that case. But the major problem there, it seems to me, is the blatant distinction in fact between different religious faiths with Sunday