Here is another hypo (one that actually may occur in
some state law school classrooms soon).
Would it violate the EC for a law professor teaching a
Religion and the Constitution class at a state law
school to do any of the following:
1. After viewing the forthcoming Mel Gibson film, The
Passion o
As someone who recently finished a Ph.D. in Religious Ethics from the
University of Chicago Divinity School (2002), I thought I might share
some thoughts on this line. The comments on this thread suggest that
different commentators presuppose different things about two matters: 1)
the nature of "p
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I'd like to suggest a slight variant on the issues opened up by the
discussion of invited speakers. Consider the philo
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What
> if I, as a student in his course, asked him
> directly, "Professor Gedickes, do you believe that
> the Constitution was divinely inspired?" If the
> answer is "no," then I presume there is no problem.
> But what if he would answer "yes." Would it
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Marty writes
Well, it's not a matter of the teachers' "freedoms"; it's a question of what the state
can "say," i.e.,
Marty writes
Well, it's not a matter of the teachers' "freedoms"; it's a question of what the state
can "say," i.e., teach. A state teacher plainly may not present a religious account
of the "true understanding of creation," but presumably a state teacher can, and often
does, present a non-re
s), just as a university is under no obligation to teach
> astrology.
>
> sandy
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In Mark's hypo the philosophy departments, and the teachers who speak within it, are
state actors. The question, then, is not whether exclusion of a certain viewpoint
In Mark's hypo the philosophy departments, and the teachers who speak within it, are
state actors. The question, then, is not whether exclusion of a certain viewpoint
from "faculty speech" would violate the free speech clause (the clause that UVa was
held to have violated in Rosenberger); presu
I'd like to suggest a slight variant on the issues opened up by the
discussion of invited speakers. Consider the philosophy department in a
public university. It offers a number of courses in ethics, in which
teachers survey the field and -- importantly for the problem -- present
their own vi
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