Religious profiling

2004-08-23 Thread Volokh, Eugene
Title: Message Does anyone know of any good articles on religious profiling -- i.e., deciding whom to target in an investigation based partly on their religion? If you do, please e-mail me, off-list if you prefer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). Many thanks, Eugene

Re: Wedding Clergy

2004-08-23 Thread Douglas Laycock
Plainly unconstitutional, and a consequence of the society's persistently equating religious marriage with civil marriage. See also that11th Circuit case, upholding a firing from a state job for going through a lesbian religious marriage ceremony. At 05:40 PM 8/23/2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

RE: Wedding Clergy

2004-08-23 Thread Skip L'Heureux
Article III, Section17 of the NYS Domestic Relations Law reads: "Clergyman or officer violating article; penalty. If any clergyman or other person authorized by the laws of this state to perform marriage ceremonies shall solemnize or presume to solemnize any marriage between any parties

RE: Wedding Clergy

2004-08-23 Thread John Fee
I share the reaction that something seems deeply wrong about this law, since it prohibits many religious clergy from performing ceremonies that have only religious significance for the participants, for reasons that are not obvious (to prevent confusion as to who is legally married?; to discourage