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State Complicity And Religious Extremism: Failing The Vulnerable Individual, Amos N. Guiora

Utah Law Faculty Scholarship

Religious extremism—especially when unhindered by the state—can result in unimaginable harm to individuals. That is not to suggest that the only extremism is religious extremism.

That would be patently incorrect and a profound misrepresentation of history; secular extremism - Communism, Fascism, Nazism, Pol Pot, Mao to name but the most obvious - has exacted an unimaginable price on hundreds of millions of people over the ages. While our examination will focus exclusively on religious extremism that is not intended - in any way - to minimize the extraordinary harm inflicted on innocent individuals by extremism not based on religion. To …

Christian Faith-Based Organizations As Third Party Interveners At The European Court Of Human Rights, Eugenia Relaño Pastor

BYU Law Review

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Friends Of The Court: Christian Conservative Arguments On Human Dignity Before The U.S. Supreme Court And The European Court Of Human Rights, Pasquale Annicchino

BYU Law Review

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Russian Symphonia Vs. Rule Of Law?, Mikhail Antonov

BYU Law Review

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Christian Dignity And The Overlapping Consensus, Frederick Mark Gedicks

BYU Law Review

This Article rejects arguments by Christian leaders, scholars, and others who lament the secularization of the West and urge Christian dignity as the foundation of universal human rights. It argues instead that only a secular conception of dignity free of Christian metaphysics can create an overlapping consensus in support of human rights.

Part I describes the roots of Christian dignity in medieval theology and status. Part II briefly recounts how the Renaissance and Enlightenment re-centered the end of dignity from knowing God to knowing oneself, while the Reformation's extension of original sin to the intellect left Catholicism as the primary …

Christian Accounts Of Religious Liberty: Two Views Of Conscience, Joel Harrison

BYU Law Review

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Human Dignity Has No Borders: Respecting The Rights Of “People On The Move” And The Rights And Religious Freedom Of Those Who Aid Them, Christine M. Venter

BYU Law Review

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Christianity, Human Rights, And Dignity: Squaring The Triangle, Brett Scharffs, Andrea Pin, Dmytro Vovk

BYU Law Review

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Catholicism, Liberalism, And Populism, Andrea Pin, Luca P. Vanoni

BYU Law Review

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The Rise And Fall Of Human Dignity, Nicholas Aroney

BYU Law Review

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Religion's Ascension To A Top-Tier Right During Covid: New Report Unpacks The Supreme Court’S Recent Religious Liberty Cases, Law, Rights, And Religion Project

Center for Gender & Sexuality Law

A new report released by The Law, Rights, and Religion Project (LRRP) at Columbia Law School — We The People (of Faith): The Supremacy of Religious Rights in the Shadow of a Pandemic — shows how the Supreme Court’s COVID-era opinions have created a hierarchy of constitutional rights, with religious rights at the top. This legal regime will have a resounding impact on U.S. law, affecting policymakers’ ability to protect public health, prevent discrimination, and secure labor rights long after the current COVID-19 crisis has abated.

In Fulton Decision, Scotus Solidifies Expansion Of Religious Exercise Rights, Law, Rights, And Religion Project

Center for Gender & Sexuality Law

On June 17, 2021, the Supreme Court solidified a dramatic shift in its reading of the constitutional protections for religious liberty. The Court ruled that religious organizations that contract with local governments to provide foster care services should be exempted from compliance with city non-discrimination requirements if the city permits any discretionary exemptions from those laws.

The Constitution, Covid-19, And Civil Disobedience: Federalism In Flames And The Slippery Slope To Socialism, Savannah Snyder

Helm's School of Government Conference - 2021-2024

Our Constitution has been devastatingly corrupted from its original design and vision amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Governors usurped authority in the name of crisis mitigation. Our unalienable rights have been macerated and pulverized by droves of executive orders, each delivering a calamitous blow to the integrity of the American republican framework. Socialized medicine is on the horizon as our compliance is coerced. Conventional civil disobedience has been regulatorily revoked. We have succumbed to the decrees of depraved men who maintain that education, religious expression, and pursuits of happiness can be invalidated by whatever transgressions the state deems necessary. For the …

Coronavirus Communication: Interaction Of Church, State, And Constitution In The Pandemic Environment, Valeriia Manchak

Helm's School of Government Conference - 2021-2024

This paper investigates the response to Covid-19 by examining the communication problem between the government and religious institutions. During the outbreak, some faith-based organizations used religion-abetted value judgments which affected viral spread (Whitehead and Perry 2020). Religious institutions can also inspire people to be supportive while the world endures hard times. (Wildman, Bulbulia and et al. 2020). This paper will explain where churches have contributed to the challenges of dealing with the COVID virus and provide recommendations for the better response (Wildman, Bulbulia and et al. 2020). This paper also discusses where the government violated constitutional rights and how to …

Incidental Burdens On First Amendment Freedoms, Charles F. Capps

Notre Dame Law Review Reflection

The Supreme Court is currently reconsidering the question when, if ever, the Free Exercise Clause requires exemptions to neutral laws of general applicability. This Essay proposes an answer that is based on the idea—which this Essay labels the “Principle of Consistency”—that the First Amendment requires comparable levels of protection for speech and religious exercise. Other scholars applying the Principle of Consistency have discussed the implications of United States v. O’Brien, which prescribed intermediate scrutiny for incidental burdens on speech, for the problem of exemptions under the Free Exercise Clause. But no one has discussed the implications of two lines …

Public Reason, Rawlsian Restraint, And The Judiciary: The Influence Of Political Philosophy On Legal Scholars And Judges In Relation To Religious Liberty, Marc A. Clauson

Helm's School of Government Conference - 2021-2024

This paper concerns the political theory of public reason in its application to religious freedom issues. Public reason, or its related idea, public justification, is in my estimation, just the latest extension of the problem of religious toleration in its particular relationship to the right of religious liberty. This latest expression of the toleration debate began, by most estimates, with John Rawls’ A Theory of Justice.[1] I will argue that in its Rawlsian form, public reason contains some serious flaws, which can be corrected by the work of political philosophers such as Gerald Gaus, Kevin Vallier and Michael Perry, …

Meninjau Kedudukan Pelaku Riddah Dan Hukuman Mati Bagi Pelaku Riddah Berdasarkan Hukum Islam Dan Hak Asasi Manusia Dalam Sudut Pandang Islam, Muhammad Adiguna Bimasakti, Nadim Raouf

Journal of Islamic Law Studies

Riddah is an act of apostasy in Islamic faith. Some texts of the hadits (sayings of The Prophet PBUH) indicate that the apostate shall be punished with death sentence. Beside, the apostate will also lose some of his/her rights according to Islamic Sharia. But there is also a principle of Freedom of Religion in quranic text as we read in Surah Albaqarah (chapter 2) verse 256 which says: “There is no compulsion in religion”. This also indicates that the Freedom of Religion in Islamic perspective is guaranteed, and cannot be taken. Thus this writing tries to elaborate the two which …

Keabsahan Perkawinan Beda Agama Dan Kewenangan Mengadili Sengketanya Dalam Perspektif Hukum Antar Tata Hukum Indonesia, Muhammad Adiguna Bimasakti

Journal of Islamic Law Studies

Perkawinan merupakan suatu hal yang sangat sakral dalam beberapa kebudayaan. Beberapa tahun belakangan isu perkawinan beda agama menjadi isu yang kembali hangat dibicarakan, terutama sejak adanya Permohonan Pengujian Pasal 2 ayat (1) UU Perkawinan No. 1 Tahun 1974 kepada Mahkamah Konstitusi dengan Nomor Perkara 68/PUU-XII/2014 yang mana seolah Pasal 2 ayat (1) ini dianggap melarang perkawinan beda agama di Indonesia. Pertanyaan yang akan timbul terkait hal tersebut adalah apakah benar perkawinan beda agama merupakan hal yang dilarang di Indonesia? Lalu bagaimana dengan legitimasi praktik perkawinan beda agama yang sudah terjadi? Kompetensi Absolut peradilan manakah yang berwenang mengadili terkait sengketa perkawinan …

Wakaf Lingkungan Hidup Dalam Rangka Pelaksanaan Pembangunan Berkelanjutan Dan Penegakkan Keadilan Antargenerasi, Savitri Nur Setyorini, Wirdyaningsih Wirdyaningsih, Chita Arifa Hazna

Journal of Islamic Law Studies

Artikel ini memberikan gambaran mengenai wakaf untuk lingkungan hidup dan kaitannya dengan pembangunan berkelanjutan dan keadilan antargenerasi. Wakaf merupakan salah satu instrumen hukum Islam untuk menyelesaikan permasalahan umat, yang mana salah satunya adalah masalah lingkungan hidup yang terkait pula dengan pembangunan berkelanjutan dan keadilan untuk generasi yang akan datang. Penelitian ini adalah penelitian kualitatif dengan desain deskriptif analitis. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa wakaf untuk lingkungan hidup dapat menyeimbangkan antara pembangunan dan keberlanjutan lingkungan hidup, serta berimbas pelestarian lingkungan hidup yang berkelanjutan dan penciptaan keadilan antargenerasi, di mana generasi yang akan datang akan memiliki tingkat pemanfaatan lingkungan hidup dan sumber daya …

Adat Institutions In Aceh Government: A Constitutional Perspective, Yunani Abiyoso, Ali Abdillah, Ryan Muthiara Wasti, Ghurnarsa Sujatnika, Mustafa Fakhri

Journal of Islamic Law Studies

The existence of adat (customary law) in Indonesia becomes a source of value for the survival of the nation. Each region in Indonesia has different adat that can be used as a reference for the form of governmental system in Indonesia. The 1945 Constitution has recognized the existence of adat government that consisting of various forms of adat that have been adopted long before the 1945 Constitution existed. The existence of adat cannot be separated from national and Islamic values. This research was conducted to find out form of adat institution in Aceh and how the integration of such adat …