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Brigham Young University Law School

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Political Partisanship And Sincere Religious Conviction, Mark Satta Jun 2022

Political Partisanship And Sincere Religious Conviction, Mark Satta

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In order for a religious conviction to receive protection under the First Amendment or the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA), it must be a sincere religious conviction. Some critics of the Supreme Court’s ruling in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby have suggested that the plaintiffs in that case and in related cases were motivated more by political ideology than by sincere religious conviction. The remedy, they argue, is for courts to be quicker to scrutinize claims of religious sincerity. In this Article, I consider another possibility—namely, that current sociopolitical partisanship in the United States has eroded a clear distinction between political …


There Is Nothing Light About Feathers: Finding Form In The Jurisprudence Of Native American Religious Exemptions, James R. Dalton Dec 2005

There Is Nothing Light About Feathers: Finding Form In The Jurisprudence Of Native American Religious Exemptions, James R. Dalton

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Religious Freedom In Southern Africa: The Developing Jurisprudence, Richard Cameron Blake, Lonn Litchfield May 1998

Religious Freedom In Southern Africa: The Developing Jurisprudence, Richard Cameron Blake, Lonn Litchfield

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