Connecticut bill

2009-03-12 Thread Douglas Laycock
The bishops have their own lawyers. They did not commission the law professor's letter, and no one but the signers had any input into its content. Marci, even you agree that this bill was plainly unconstitutional, so it did not take a conspiracy of bishops to get me to say so. If the real

Re: Connecticut bill

2009-03-12 Thread Marc Stern
@lists.ucla.edu religionlaw@lists.ucla.edu Sent: Thu Mar 12 14:51:09 2009 Subject: Connecticut bill The bishops have their own lawyers. They did not commission the law professor's letter, and no one but the signers had any input into its content. Marci, even you agree that this bill was plainly

Re: Connecticut bill

2009-03-12 Thread hamilton02
Thanks, Doug. Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry -Original Message- From: Douglas Laycock layco...@umich.edu Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 14:51:09 To: religionlaw@lists.ucla.edu Subject: Connecticut bill ___ To post, send message

Re: Connecticut bill

2009-03-12 Thread hamilton02
: Marc Stern mst...@ajcongress.org Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 15:34:16 To: religionlaw@lists.ucla.edu Subject: Re: Connecticut bill ___ To post, send message to Religionlaw@lists.ucla.edu To subscribe, unsubscribe, change options, or get password, see http

Re: Connecticut bill

2009-03-12 Thread Douglas Laycock
.. No offense at all intended. Marci Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry -Original Message- From: Marc Stern mst...@ajcongress.org Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 15:34:16 To: religionlaw@lists.ucla.edu Subject: Re: Connecticut bill

Re: Connecticut bill

2009-03-11 Thread SAMUEL M. KRIEGER
Just for the sake of perspective on the proposed Connecticut legislation, I would welcome any comments on Section 200 of the New York Religious Corporations Law (codified in Article 10 applicable to Other Denominations - including Jewish Congregations ) compared to sub- sections (e) and

Re: Connecticut bill

2009-03-11 Thread Will Linden
I have plenty of comments on it, as an officer of one of the other churches, after the court seemed to contrive a new hoop for us to jump through every week; but they probably would not get past the moderator. We're from the government, we're here to protect you. (Ironically, our church

RE: Connecticut bill

2009-03-11 Thread Friedman, Howard M.
* From: religionlaw-boun...@lists.ucla.edu [mailto:religionlaw-boun...@lists.ucla.edu] On Behalf Of SAMUEL M. KRIEGER Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2009 1:11 PM To: Law Religion issues for Law Academics Subject: Re: Connecticut bill Just for the sake of perspective on the proposed

RE: Connecticut bill

2009-03-11 Thread Marc Stern
, March 11, 2009 2:54 PM To: Law Religion issues for Law Academics Subject: RE: Connecticut bill To the extent that the entire NY Religious Corporations Law is mandatory, as opposed to merely default provisions that apply in the absence of contrary rules in the organization's charter or bylaws, I

Connecticut bill

2009-03-10 Thread Douglas Laycock
Earlier today we discussed a bill in Connecticut to impose Protestant forms of church governance on the Catholic Church. The bill has been pulled and tomorrow's hearing has been cancelled, apparently due to a flood of calls to legislators. Church leaders in Connecticut are not convinced

Re: Connecticut bill

2009-03-10 Thread Steven Jamar
Well done, Doug et al. While the signers of the letter disagree on a topic or two in the area of religious freedom and constitutional interpretation of the religion clauses, there is a huge breadth of space over which they and I suspect nearly all constitutional law experts agree. This is

Re: Connecticut bill

2009-03-10 Thread Alan Leigh Armstrong
The fun is in the matters that are close to the line. Whenever the law draws a line, there will be cases very near each other on opposite sides. The precise course of the line may be uncertain, but no one can come near it without knowing that he does so…. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. U.S. v.

Re: Connecticut bill

2009-03-10 Thread Steven Jamar
you are welcome -- and thanks for the current best info on the origin of the phrase. steve On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 8:25 PM, Douglas Laycock layco...@umich.edu wrote: Thanks, Steve. I was one of those people who once attributed eternal vigilance is the price of liberty to Jefferson. In