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Furthermore, allowing religious groups and individuals exemptions from a reasonable civil law is discriminatory to non-religious organizations and individuals. While religious people can claim that being subjected to a certain law is against their most deeply held religious convictions, atheists cannot raise such an argument in order to seek exemption from a law. An adamantly anti-homosexual adoption agency with no religious affiliation would not be able to seek the same exemption sought by Catholic charities but would rather have to attempt to articulate a secular reason why they cannot place children in same-sex homes. Would said homophobic...
With warnings against treating preemption as a “yes or no, black or white, legal or illegal” and repeated assertions that a jurisprudence cannot be created flawlessly in one try, Dershowitz is resigned to treating this work not as a landmark treatise on preemption but as a first building block...
...heart goes out to those children whose quest for a warm home might be temporarily put on hold, and I pray that eventually they will be welcomed by kind and loving parents. But I cannot ignore the larger, disastrous implications of granting Catholic Charities an exemption from the anti-discrimination law, an important law that guarantees homosexual individuals the same rights enjoyed by everyone else. Doing so discriminates against other religious groups that might have appealed for exemptions from the law and have been denied, and it constitutes a slap in the face for my atheist friends who can never...
...Court as placing too great a burden on women. A majority of Americans approve of spousal notification, provided there are exceptions for women in abusive situations, and when he was an appeals court judge Sam Alito upheld such a provision. But the Supreme Court ruled in Casey that "it cannot be claimed that the father's interest in the fetus' welfare is equal to the mother's protected liberty...." Requiring a woman to notify her husband before an abortion, the Justices argued, "embodies a view of marriage" that is "repugnant to this court's present understanding of marriage...
...routine to prepare for a new threat without also triggering alarm. Besides, a little bit of panic helps folks prepare emotionally for what the future may hold. It?s a necessary kind of "adjustment reaction," he says, that allows folks to think about what they can and cannot do, so that when the crisis comes they don?t just dissolve into despair and inaction...