RE: Lesser protection for religious advocacy

2004-11-10 Thread Gene Summerlin
Professor Newsom, I appreciate your comments, and while I intended to let my last post be my last post, I am not quite able to quit cold turkey. I think this really is an interesting and important issue. I think you hit the nail on the head when you pointed to the definition of bullying as being

Re: Lesser protection for religious advocacy

2004-11-10 Thread Ed Brayton
Pardon me for jumping in. I'm brand new to this list, but as my organization, Michigan Citizens for Science, is involved in questions of science curricula I thought I'd jump in on this particular discussion. It should probably be noted up front that I am not an attorney myself. Mark Graber wrot

RE: Lesser protection for religious advocacy

2004-11-10 Thread Newsom Michael
Original Message- From: Gene Summerlin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2004 3:32 PM To: 'Law & Religion issues for Law Academics' Subject: RE: Lesser protection for religious advocacy Mark, I agree that context matters and for that reason I have d

RE: Lesser protection for religious advocacy

2004-11-10 Thread Gene Summerlin
sage- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Mark Graber Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2004 1:34 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Lesser protection for religious advocacy Context matters, and the nature of discussion matters. Certainly as a matter of first impression, I do

RE: Lesser protection for religious advocacy

2004-11-10 Thread Mark Graber
30-5344 (Mobile) www.osolaw.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Mark Graber Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2004 8:02 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Lesser protection for religious advocacy What about the following rule

RE: Lesser protection for religious advocacy

2004-11-10 Thread Robin Charlow
l Message- From: Scarberry, Mark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2004 5:24 PM To: 'Law & Religion issues for Law Academics' Subject: RE: Lesser protection for religious advocacy The idea that the govt is responsible for all that it does not prohibit must be t

RE: Lesser protection for religious advocacy

2004-11-10 Thread Gene Summerlin
0 402.434.8044 (FAX) 402.730.5344 (Mobile) www.osolaw.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Newsom Michael [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2004 11:01 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Law & Religion issues for Law Academics Subject: RE: Lesser protection for rel

RE: Lesser protection for religious advocacy

2004-11-10 Thread Newsom Michael
t: Tuesday, November 09, 2004 6:18 PM To: Law & Religion issues for Law Academics Subject: RE: Lesser protection for religious advocacy Professor Newsome, Would it be constitutional, in your opinion, for a school to pass and enforce a rule which stated, "Students may not discuss any matters r

RE: Lesser protection for religious advocacy

2004-11-10 Thread Newsom Michael
PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2004 5:24 PM To: 'Law & Religion issues for Law Academics' Subject: RE: Lesser protection for religious advocacy   The idea that the govt is responsible for all that it does not prohibit must be treated with great care. It has the potential

RE: Lesser protection for religious advocacy

2004-11-10 Thread Gene Summerlin
w.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Mark Graber Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2004 8:02 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Lesser protection for religious advocacy What about the following rule in a school. You

RE: Lesser protection for religious advocacy

2004-11-10 Thread Mark Graber
AIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Mark Graber Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2004 5:39 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Lesser protection for religious advocacy Obviously overbroad. Students may clearly ask, "who is the present Pope?" The issue is whether students may proselytize. MAG >&g

RE: Lesser protection for religious advocacy

2004-11-09 Thread Gene Summerlin
ovember 09, 2004 5:39 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Lesser protection for religious advocacy Obviously overbroad. Students may clearly ask, "who is the present Pope?" The issue is whether students may proselytize. MAG >>> "Gene Summerlin" <[EMAIL PROTECTE

RE: Lesser protection for religious advocacy

2004-11-09 Thread Gene Summerlin
r 09, 2004 5:39 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Lesser protection for religious advocacy Obviously overbroad. Students may clearly ask, "who is the present Pope?" The issue is whether students may proselytize. MAG >>> "Gene Summerlin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

RE: Lesser protection for religious advocacy

2004-11-09 Thread Mark Graber
ent: Tuesday, November 09, 2004 3:25 PM To: Law & Religion issues for Law Academics Subject: RE: Lesser protection for religious advocacy Well that is the question. Some people believe that schools should not be religious-free zones, and one of their arguments in support of that position -- ap

RE: Lesser protection for religious advocacy

2004-11-09 Thread Gene Summerlin
MAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Newsom Michael Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2004 3:25 PM To: Law & Religion issues for Law Academics Subject: RE: Lesser protection for religious advocacy Well that is the question. Some people believe that schools should not be religious-free zones

RE: Lesser protection for religious advocacy

2004-11-09 Thread marc stern
7;Law & Religion issues for Law Academics' Subject: RE: Lesser protection for religious advocacy   The idea that the govt is responsible for all that it does not prohibit must be treated with great care. It has the potential of making govt responsible for all of life, and of eliminating the sph

RE: Lesser protection for religious advocacy

2004-11-09 Thread Scarberry, Mark
f Law   -Original Message- From: marc stern [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2004 2:14 PM To: 'Law & Religion issues for Law Academics' Subject: RE: Lesser protection for religious advocacy   That the failure to regulate might constitute state action-a

RE: Lesser protection for religious advocacy

2004-11-09 Thread marc stern
ely became moot as a result of the 1964 civil rights act. Marc Stern   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2004 5:05 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Lesser protection for religious advocacy   In a mess

RE: Lesser protection for religious advocacy

2004-11-09 Thread Newsom Michael
You might.   -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2004 5:05 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Lesser protection for religious advocacy   In a message dated 11/9/2004 5:00:06 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL

Re: Lesser protection for religious advocacy

2004-11-09 Thread JMHACLJ
In a message dated 11/9/2004 5:00:06 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Can't the stateregulate the use of its property?  Can't one say that failure to do somight amount to state action? Seems at least plausible that if you can make that work, you can find state action in the f

RE: Lesser protection for religious advocacy

2004-11-09 Thread Newsom Michael
x27;Law & Religion issues for Law Academics' Subject: RE: Lesser protection for religious advocacy But note that the 14th amendment has a state action requirement... Mark S. Scarberry Pepperdine University School of Law -Original Message- From: Newsom Michael [mailto:[EMAIL PROT

RE: Lesser protection for religious advocacy

2004-11-09 Thread Scarberry, Mark
: RE: Lesser protection for religious advocacy For this argument to stand up, one has to conclude that any conflict between the possible meaning of the First Amendment trumps possible meanings of the Fourteenth Amendment. I thought the rule of construction was that the latter in time trumps the fo

RE: Lesser protection for religious advocacy

2004-11-09 Thread Newsom Michael
, Eugene [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 05, 2004 7:21 PM To: Law & Religion issues for Law Academics Subject: RE: Lesser protection for religious advocacy The Fourteenth Amendment doesn't justify speech restrictions in the cause of fighting racism any mor

RE: Lesser protection for religious advocacy

2004-11-09 Thread Newsom Michael
requires. -Original Message- From: Mark Graber [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 05, 2004 6:03 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Lesser protection for religious advocacy but schools are religious-free zones. MAG ___ To post

RE: Lesser protection for religious advocacy

2004-11-05 Thread Volokh, Eugene
lynchings. And, here, the Establishment Clause, which speaks (at most) to the views that *the government* may express says nothing to authorize the government to suppress *private persons'* religious messages. Eugene > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mai

RE: Lesser protection for religious advocacy

2004-11-05 Thread Mark Graber
s from expressing the view > that some should convert to some religion, or should stop > being religious. What's the justification for this sort of > strikingly speech-restrictive position? > > Eugene > > > > -Original Message- > > From: [

RE: Lesser protection for religious advocacy

2004-11-05 Thread Volokh, Eugene
from wearing religious symbols. But he seems to > think that it prohibits students from expressing the view > that some should convert to some religion, or should stop > being religious. What's the justification for this sort of > strikingly speech-restrictive position? > >

RE: Lesser protection for religious advocacy

2004-11-05 Thread Gene Summerlin
ncoln, NE 68508 402.434.8040 402.434.8044 (FAX) 402.730.5344 (Mobile) www.osolaw.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Mark Graber Sent: Friday, November 05, 2004 5:03 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Lesser protection

RE: Lesser protection for religious advocacy

2004-11-05 Thread Mark Graber
:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Graber > Sent: Friday, November 05, 2004 3:03 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Lesser protection for religious advocacy > > > The purpose of the story was simply to point out, as I > thought I made clear, that a great many Chri

RE: Lesser protection for religious advocacy

2004-11-05 Thread Volokh, Eugene
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Graber > Sent: Friday, November 05, 2004 3:03 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Lesser protection for religious advocacy > > > The purpose of the story was simply to point out, as I > thought I m

Re: Lesser protection for religious advocacy

2004-11-05 Thread Mark Graber
The purpose of the story was simply to point out, as I thought I made clear, that a great many Christians who thought nothing problematic about converting Jews suddenly found speech offensive when they were the converters. I suspect, by the way, that we agree that harrassment is the wrong word. I

Re: Lesser protection for religious advocacy

2004-11-05 Thread Volokh, Eugene
I'm puzzled. Is Mark genuinely saying that it should be considered harassment -- and thus presumably punishable under hostile environment harassment law (unless Mark agrees with me that hostile environment harassment law is unconstitutional to this extent) -- for people to express the view