RE: Ten Commandments: My Prediction

2005-03-07 Thread Newsom Michael
Subject: RE: Ten Commandments: My Prediction I define discrimination against religion as treating people or organizations worse because they are religious. (I don't think anything I have said suggests that discrimination means denying [a group] permission to do something that it wants to do

RE: Ten Commandments: My Prediction

2005-03-05 Thread Volokh, Eugene
iginal Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Newsom MichaelSent: Friday, March 04, 2005 1:53 PMTo: Law Religion issues for Law AcademicsSubject: RE: Ten Commandments: My Prediction The cases you refer to dont capture the social realit

Re: Ten Commandments: My Prediction

2005-03-02 Thread A.E. Brownstein
I think there is a difference between control and having a decent respect to the opinions of mankind which some of the framers seemed to think was important in 1776. Alan Brownstein UC Davis At 10:08 PM 3/1/2005 -0800, you wrote: It's a little hard to predict because I am not familiar with

Re: Ten Commandments: My Prediction

2005-03-02 Thread Francisco Martin
: Ten Commandments: My Prediction I think there is a difference between control and having a decent respect to the opinions of mankind which some of the framers seemed to think was important in 1776. Alan Brownstein UC Davis At 10:08 PM 3/1/2005 -0800, you wrote: It's a little hard

Re: Ten Commandments: My Prediction

2005-03-02 Thread Richard Dougherty
Alan: True. The differnece is that the founders thought they were right and the rest of the world wrong. Richard Dougherty A.E. Brownstein wrote: I think there is a difference between control and having a decent respect to the opinions of mankind which some of the framers seemed to think

Re: Ten Commandments: My Prediction

2005-03-02 Thread A.E. Brownstein
Date: 3/2/2005 2:16:03 PM Subject: Re: Ten Commandments: My Prediction I think there is a difference between control and having a decent respect to the opinions of mankind which some of the framers seemed to think was important in 1776. Alan Brownstein UC Davis At 10:08 PM 3/1/2005 -0800

Re: Ten Commandments: My Prediction

2005-03-02 Thread Steven Jamar
US law on establishment is decidedly different from that of most of the world. Indeed, most states do not have a prohibition on establishment, just a guarantee of free exercise. I do not think that the US needs to have establishment law as it does to preserve religious freedom, but as it has

Re: Ten Commandments: My Prediction

2005-03-02 Thread Richard Dougherty
Alan: I think this would be appropriate in a document like the Declaration of Independence, but not in every court decision that is handed down; doesn't it suffice to know that we have different laws, and that's why we have different results? The claim of the Declaration, though, is a

RE: Ten Commandments: My Prediction

2005-03-02 Thread Berg, Thomas C.
PROTECTED] Sent: Wed 3/2/2005 2:11 PM To: Law Religion issues for Law Academics Subject: Re: Ten Commandments: My Prediction US law on establishment is decidedly different from that of most of the world. Indeed, most states do not have a prohibition on establishment, just a guarantee of free

Re: Ten Commandments: My Prediction

2005-03-02 Thread Steven Jamar
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

RE: Ten Commandments: My Prediction

2005-03-02 Thread Newsom Michael
Religion issues for Law Academics Subject: Re: Ten Commandments: My Prediction 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