To follow up on Eugene's point: Historically, most of the attempts to obtain public funding of religious education have been by Catholics. A lot of people (not including me) have seen such attempts as serious assaults on the religious liberty that is maintained by strong non-Establishment norms.
Protestants are not alone in attacking strict separationism, though they typically attack different manifestations of it than do Catholics. (Of course, there are also Protestants who support strict separationism. See, e.g., Rev. Barry Lynn of the group formerly known as Protestants and Other Americans United for Separation of Church and State.) Mark S. Scarberry Pepperdine University School of Law -----Original Message----- From: Volokh, Eugene [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2005 4:34 PM To: Law & Religion issues for Law Academics Subject: Protestants and non-Protestants calling for various things Well, Allegheny involved a creche donated by a Catholic group, and a menorah. There was also a Ninth Circuit involving a meonrah display in a public park; I believe the Chabad people (quite Orthodox Jews) put it up. I'm not sure what "using religious arguments as superior to positive law" means, but I'd guess that whatever Protestants do here, many Catholics and probably many Jews do, too. I can't speak to precisely how often these things are done by Protestants and how often by Jews or Catholics, but Allegheny at least shows that Catholics and Jews are sometimes quite happy to push for religious symbolism. Steve Jamar writes: Ok, but I've not seen Catholics or Jews or Muslims pushing for: prayers starting school prayers at football games using religious arguments as superior to positive law young-earther anti-evolution creationism creches I do not recall seeing any Catholics or Jews pushing this as part of their agendas, either. No doubt some, perhaps many, even most Catholics and perhaps many, perhaps most Jews support it -- but they are not the ones pushing it. I stand by my comment as made. _______________________________________________ To post, send message to Religionlaw@lists.ucla.edu To subscribe, unsubscribe, change options, or get password, see http://lists.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/religionlaw Please note that messages sent to this large list cannot be viewed as private. Anyone can subscribe to the list and read messages that are posted; people can read the Web archives; and list members can (rightly or wrongly) forward the messages to others. _______________________________________________ To post, send message to Religionlaw@lists.ucla.edu To subscribe, unsubscribe, change options, or get password, see http://lists.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/religionlaw Please note that messages sent to this large list cannot be viewed as private. Anyone can subscribe to the list and read messages that are posted; people can read the Web archives; and list members can (rightly or wrongly) forward the messages to others.
