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Keeping The Sex In Sex Education: The First Amendment's Religion Clauses And The Sex Education Debate, Gary J. Simson, Erika A. Sussman Apr 2000

Keeping The Sex In Sex Education: The First Amendment's Religion Clauses And The Sex Education Debate, Gary J. Simson, Erika A. Sussman

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


The Normalized Free Exercise Clause: Three Abnormalities, Fredrick Mark Gedicks Jan 2000

The Normalized Free Exercise Clause: Three Abnormalities, Fredrick Mark Gedicks

Indiana Law Journal

Symposium: Religious Liberty at the Dawn of a New Millennium held at Indiana University School of Law-Bloomington on April 9, 1999.


A Rough And Narrow Path: Preserving Native American Religious Liberty In The Smith Era, John Celichowski Jan 2000

A Rough And Narrow Path: Preserving Native American Religious Liberty In The Smith Era, John Celichowski

American Indian Law Review

No abstract provided.


Towards A Defensible Free Exercise Doctrine, Frederick Mark Gedicks Jan 2000

Towards A Defensible Free Exercise Doctrine, Frederick Mark Gedicks

Faculty Scholarship

Almost from the moment that the Supreme Court abandoned the religious exemption doctrine in Employment Division v. Smith, its defenders have worked to bring it back. More than a decade later, however, Smith remains well-entrenched; not only has the Court confirmed Smith's basic holding, but it also struck the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, Congress's first effort to restore the exemption doctrine, at least as it applied to the states.

Proponents of religious exemptions cannot ignore the hard truth that they can no longer be defended. During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, American society viewed the practice of religion-mostly Christian …