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Banning Churches From Meeting In New York Public Schools, Neil J. Foster
Banning Churches From Meeting In New York Public Schools, Neil J. Foster
Neil J Foster
Discusses and critiques a recent US court decision upholding the banning of a church meeting in a public school on the weekend.
Freedom Of Religion In Practice: Exemptions Under Antidiscrimination Laws On The Basis Of Religion., Neil J. Foster
Freedom Of Religion In Practice: Exemptions Under Antidiscrimination Laws On The Basis Of Religion., Neil J. Foster
Neil J Foster
Recognition of “human rights” often involves the need to balance one set of rights against another. While anti‐discrimination laws generally are designed to outlaw decision‐making on irrelevant grounds, recognition of “freedom of religion” (a clear human right acknowledged in the international covenants on the area) requires acknowledging that decision‐making in many areas on religious grounds is not irrelevant, and hence requires careful crafting of appropriate exemptions to otherwise blanket prohibitions against discrimination. But in many ways there has been a subtle shift in recent decades away from a fully‐orbed recognition of human rights, towards an absolutist prohibition of discrimination alone. …
Freedom Of Religion In Practice: Exemptions Under Anti-Discrimination Laws On The Basis Of Religion, Neil J. Foster
Freedom Of Religion In Practice: Exemptions Under Anti-Discrimination Laws On The Basis Of Religion, Neil J. Foster
Neil J Foster
Recognition of “human rights” often involves the need to balance one set of rights against another. While anti‐discrimination laws generally are designed to outlaw decision‐making on irrelevant grounds, recognition of “freedom of religion” (a clear human right acknowledged in the international covenants on the area) requires acknowledging that decision‐making in many areas on religious grounds is not irrelevant, and hence requires careful crafting of appropriate exemptions to otherwise blanket prohibitions against discrimination. But in many ways there has been a subtle shift in recent decades away from a fully‐orbed recognition of human rights, towards an absolutist prohibition of discrimination alone. …
Opposing Same-Sex Marriage Is Not Discrimination, Neil J. Foster
Opposing Same-Sex Marriage Is Not Discrimination, Neil J. Foster
Neil J Foster
This paper argues that is not "discriminatory" to oppose the legalisation of same-sex marriage.