I was quite surprised to read the following passage from a recent
district court case, Salahuddin v. Perez, ___, 2006 WL 266574, at *9
(S.D.N.Y. Feb. 2, 2006):
When presented with an Establishment Clause claim, a court must ask
whether the challenged practice (1) has a secular purpose; (2)
Hi all,
Does anyone know of any cases, apart from People v. Greenleaf in New
York, in which a clergyperson was prosecuted for officiating at a
same-sex marriage?
Thanks.
Perry
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Fascinating!
I do think that the Lemon test is tempered in the prison context,
but not by virtue of Turner v. Safley. Rather, it seems to me that,
to the extent that prisons (and, to a lesser extent, the armed
forces) are closed off from free access to the religious element of
In 2002 Prez Bush proclaimed compassionate coercion:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/02/20020212-2.html
In 1991 Archie Brodsky of Harvard Medical School wrote:
And it is one of the most blatant and pervasive violations of
constitutional rights in the United States today.
Folks: It might help to be a bit more explicit when posing such
questions, rather than just relying on labeling (compassionate
coercion), conclusory assertions, and links that people may not have
much time to follow. What's the issue? Why is what's going on
coercive? What are the
I read with interest a CNNarticle on the continuing controversy over the Denmark Cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed. Of particular interest was the following:"The Danish government says it does not control what is in the country's newspapers and that courts will determine whether the
