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Women And The Free Exercise Clause: Some Thoughts About A (Religious) Feminist Reading, Marie Failinger
Women And The Free Exercise Clause: Some Thoughts About A (Religious) Feminist Reading, Marie Failinger
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Among the dozens of Supreme Court cases on the free exercise of religion, women play a mostly invisible part. We know of Adell Sherbert and Frieda Yoder; and less famously, Alma Lovell, Lillian Gobitis, Paula Hobbie, Sarah Prince, and Lucie McClure. We know that these women go out into the streets to tell the Good News, refuse to salute idols, refuse to work on the Sabbath, and refuse to go to school in violation of their religion. But, we do not hear their voices very loudly.
At the same time, until recently, we have consistently heard only one woman's voice …