The present doctrinal development begins with Church of Lukumi Babalu Aye v. Hialeah (1993), in which the Court invalidated a ban on animal sacrifice. The Court had previously held that there was no right to religious exemptions from neutral laws. But this law wasn’t neutral. It targeted an unpopular religion of Caribbean immigrants. The laws, […]
Eugene has kindly invited me to contribute a series of posts, briefly describing my taxonomy of new variants of the most-favored-nation theory of religious liberty (forthcoming in the Iowa Law Review). I’m particularly pleased by the invitation, because I wrote the piece in conscious emulation of the kind of careful cataloguing of the capillaries of […]
I’m delighted to report that Prof. Andrew Koppelman (Northwestern) will be guest-blogging this coming week about his new article, “The Increasingly Dangerous Variants of the ‘Most-Favored-Nation’ Theory of Religious Liberty“: The First Amendment prohibits discrimination against religion. In a short time, mostly in cases challenging efforts to contain the Covid pandemic, the Supreme Court has […]
Officials in the Swiss canton of Geneva have banned evangelical churches that aren’t affiliated with the government from baptizing people in Lake Geneva. “Only organizations permitted to have relations with the state can request authorization for a public religious event,” said officials in a statement. Religious organizations that don’t have governmental approval can conduct events […]