Well ... Don't forget Rehnquist's "play in the joints" from Locke v. Davey, also a Washington case, by the way. Te state's position seems like a perfectly respectable old-time separationist view.
Randy Bezanson U Iowa Sent from my iPad On Aug 14, 2011, at 11:24 PM, "Volokh, Eugene" <vol...@law.ucla.edu<mailto:vol...@law.ucla.edu>> wrote: Any thoughts on this incident? It sounds to me like the church should win in Widmar v. Vincent – if a university can’t exclude religious worship from a designated public forum, it surely can’t exclude it from a traditional public forum, no? Indeed, the baptism would presumably involve not just speech but also the immersion of a person in water (if that’s the kind of baptism that’s involved); but I take it that this is expressive conduct, and expressive conduct that isn’t being limited because of some harms that supposedly flow from its physical properties (such as the risk of drowning or some such). Or am I missing something here? Eugene Feed: Religion Clause Posted on: Sunday, August 14, 2011 10:46 AM Author: Howard Friedman Subject: Washington State Denies Permit For Baptism Ceremony At State Capitol Park In Olympia, Washington, Heritage Park<http://www.ga.wa.gov/visitor/Parks/HP.htm> is a 24-acre state-owned park next to the state capitol campus. The state will issue permits for events to be held at the park. Today's Bellingham (WA) Herald<http://www.bellinghamherald.com/2011/08/13/2141468/state-rejects-olympia-churchs.html> reports that the state's Department of General Administration has given Reality Church of Olympia a permit for a barbecue and picnic to be held today, but has denied its request to conduct a baptism along with the event. The Department, deciding an appeal of an initial denial, said that the state constitution bars the use of public property for religious worship. The church had argued that its free speech and free exercise rights were infringed by the denial. View article...<http://religionclause.blogspot.com/2011/08/washington-state-denies-permit-for.html> _______________________________________________ To post, send message to <mailto:Religionlaw@lists.ucla.edu> Religionlaw@lists.ucla.edu<mailto:Religionlaw@lists.ucla.edu> To subscribe, unsubscribe, change options, or get password, see <http://lists.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/religionlaw> 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.
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