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The Government Needs Prayers, David Forte
The Government Needs Prayers, David Forte
Law Faculty Articles and Essays
This essay, published in the Washington Times, was adapted from from “Religion and the Republic,” published by Public Discourse. Forte argues that a true republic respects religious speech and such speech represents a different authority from governing power and affirms its limited nature.
Religious Rights In Historical, Theoretical And International Context: Hobby Lobby As A Jurisprudential Anomaly, S. I. Strong
Religious Rights In Historical, Theoretical And International Context: Hobby Lobby As A Jurisprudential Anomaly, S. I. Strong
Faculty Publications
The United States has a long and complicated history concerning religious rights, and the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc., has done little to clear up the jurisprudence in this field. Although the decision will doubtless generate a great deal of commentary as a matter of constitutional and statutory law, the better approach is to consider whether and to what extent the majority and dissenting opinions reflect the fundamental principles of religious liberty. Only in that context can the merits of such a novel decision be evaluated free from political and other biases.
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Professor Greenawalt's Unfashionable Idea, H. Jefferson Powell
Professor Greenawalt's Unfashionable Idea, H. Jefferson Powell
Faculty Scholarship
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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
Faculty Scholarship
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 …