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Full-Text Articles in Religion Law
International Red Cross Must Include Israel, Kenneth Lasson
International Red Cross Must Include Israel, Kenneth Lasson
All Faculty Scholarship
Israel's corresponding relief agency, the Mogen David Adom, has provided emergency services to countries all over the world since 1939, and it meets or surpasses every other standard for IFRC membership. Yet Israel remains the only nation left out of the 178- country federation. Why?
An IFRC spokesman says that it is "governments, not the federation, that give emblems the protective force of international law," and that "governments" are preparing to adopt an additional emblem, with no religious or national connotations, to stand alongside the Red Cross and the Red Crescent, one that Israel could adopt as its own.
The …
Recognizing Substance: Adoptees And Affiliates Of Native American Tribes Claiming Free Exercise Rights
Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice
No abstract provided.
Transcript Of Speech On American Atheists' Position On Religion In The Public Schools, Ellen Johnson
Transcript Of Speech On American Atheists' Position On Religion In The Public Schools, Ellen Johnson
William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal
Religious discussion in American public schools is one of the more controversial issues in modern education. Ellen Johnson not only explains the American Atheists 'position on the issue, but also presents observations from the often-ignored Atheist perspective. Johnson's remarks serve to remind us that there are other views on the subject besides the popular opinions concerning accommodation and access to school facilities.
Title Vii And Religious Liberty, Kent Greenawalt
Title Vii And Religious Liberty, Kent Greenawalt
Faculty Scholarship
Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which forbids religious discrimination in employment, raises in microcosm some extremely thorny questions about religious liberty; questions more familiar to most of us in constitutional settings. In focusing on these questions in their Title VII context, I am more interested in fundamental conceptual issues than in the precise details of what that law should be taken to provide.
Among the questions are: What is discrimination because of religion? How should religion be "defined"? How far should employers accommodate the religious exercise of workers? Under the First Amendment, how much accommodation can the …
The Celebration Of Same-Sex Marriage, Bruce Macdougall
The Celebration Of Same-Sex Marriage, Bruce Macdougall
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This article explores the nature of discourse about equality, in particular homosexual equality, and situates the current debate about same-sex marriage in that discourse. The author explores the idea that legal discourse about equality moves among sites that may be labeled condemnation, compassion, condonation and celebration. Achievement of real (as opposed to formal) legal equality requires advancement at each of these sites. In Canada, legal discourse about equality for gays and lesbians at the first three sites has been largely successful and contention now is at the site of celebration. Marriage is a profoundly symbolic institution, representing state celebration of …