Religious Exemptions

Author : Kevin Vallier
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190666188
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Religious Exemptions written by Kevin Vallier and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Religious exemptions have a long history in American law, but have become especially controversial over the last several years. The essays in this volume address the moral and philosophical issues that the legal practice of religious exemptions often raises.

Author : Andrew Koppelman
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674071077
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Defending American Religious Neutrality written by Andrew Koppelman and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although it is often charged with hostility toward religion, First Amendment doctrine in fact treats religion as a distinctive human good. It insists, however, that this good be understood abstractly, without the state taking sides on any theological question. Here, a leading scholar of constitutional law explains the logic of this uniquely American form of neutrality—more religion-centered than liberal theorists propose, and less overtly theistic than conservatives advocate. The First Amendment’s guarantee of freedom of religion is under threat. Growing numbers of critics, including a near-majority of the Supreme Court, seem ready to cast aside the ideal of American religious neutrality. Andrew Koppelman defends that ideal and explains why protecting religion from political manipulation is imperative in an America of growing religious diversity. Understanding American religious neutrality, Koppelman shows, can explain some familiar puzzles. How can Bible reading in public schools be impermissible while legislative sessions begin with prayers, Christmas is an official holiday, and the words “under God” appear in the Pledge of Allegiance? Are faith-based social services, public financing of religious schools, or the teaching of intelligent design constitutional? Combining legal, historical, and philosophical analysis, Koppelman shows how law coherently navigates these conundrums. He explains why laws must have a secular legislative purpose, why old, but not new, ceremonial acknowledgments of religion are permitted, and why it is fair to give religion special treatment.

Author : Edward A. Zelinsky
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190853964
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Taxing the Church written by Edward A. Zelinsky and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-09-27 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the taxation and exemption of churches and other religious institutions, both empirically and normatively. This exploration reveals that churches and other religious institutions are treated diversely by the federal and state tax systems. Sectarian institutions pay more tax than many believe. In important respects, the states differ among themselves in their respective approaches to the taxation of sectarian entities. Either taxing or exempting churches and other sectarian entities entangles church and state. The taxes to which churches are more frequently subject - federal Social Security and Medicare taxes, sales taxes, real estate conveyance taxes - fall on the less entangling end of the spectrum. The taxes from which religious institutions are exempt - general income taxes, value-based property taxes, unemployment taxes - are typically taxes with the greatest potential for church-state enforcement entanglement. It is unpersuasive to reflexively denounce the tax exemption of religious actors and institutions as a subsidy. Tax exemption can implement the secular, non-subsidizing goal of minimizing church-state enforcement entanglement and thus be regarded as part of a normative tax base. Taxing the church or exempting the church involves often difficult trade-offs among competing and legitimate values. On balance, our federal system of decentralized legislation reasonably make these legal and tax policy trade-offs, though there is room for improvement in particular settings such as the protection of internal church communications and the expansion of the churches' sales tax liabilities.

Author : Dr. Robert Caires DC Esq.
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1532053401
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Perfecting Religious Exemption from Vaccination written by Dr. Robert Caires DC Esq. and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2019-01-14 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book will enlighten you about the negative to health consequences of injecting unnatural to human biology chemicals however, the book mainly concentrates on Perfecting Religious Exemption from Vaccination. If vaccination violates your religion you should not be enforced to vaccinate. Religious Exemption from vaccination allows for the Free Exercise of Religion and thereby, secures Freedom of Religion as, is required under the Constitution. If you do not want your children vaccinated because it is against your religion this book can help you perfect a Religious Exemption from vaccination.

Author : Douglas Laycock
Publisher : William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9780802876058
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Religious Liberty written by Douglas Laycock and published by William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most respected and influential scholars of religious liberty in our time, Douglas Laycock has argued many crucial religious liberty cases in the U.S. appellate courts and Supreme Court. His noteworthy scholarly and popular writings are being collected in four comprehensive volumes under the title Religious Liberty. This first volume gives the big picture of religious liberty in the United States, fitting a vast range of disparate disputes into a coherent pattern - from public school prayers to private school vouchers to regulation of churches and believers. Laycock's clear overviews provide the broad, historical, helpful context often lacking in today's press.

Author : Leopold Selvaggio
Publisher : Nova Science Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781631178337
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Religious Exemptions and Expressions written by Leopold Selvaggio and published by Nova Science Publishers. This book was released on 2014-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the constitutional and statutory protections related to free exercise of religion, including current Supreme Court interpretations, as well as judicial and legislative avoidance of defining the parameters of religious belief. It also discusses significant examples of existing religious exemptions in current law, including employment non-discrimination, health care, and public accommodations law. It analyses recent federal judicial decisions that have considered the religious freedom rights of commercial entities whose owners have religious objections to the contraceptive coverage requirement. The book then continues to discuss church and campaign activity; legal issues associated with religious exemptions to photo identification laws; and prayer and religious expression in public institutions.

Author : Cynthia Brougher
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1437939457
Total Pages : 14 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Legal Analysis of Religious Exemptions for Photo Identification Requirements written by Cynthia Brougher and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a print on demand edition of a hard to find publication. The 111th Congress has considered the issue of possible exemptions to fed. photo ID requirements. Contents of this report: (1) Legal Protections for Religious Exercise: Free Exercise Clause; Religious Freedom Restoration Act; (2) Religious Objections to Photo ID Requirements: Analysis of Religious Objections to Photo Requirements; Judicial Considerations in State Driver¿s License Exemption Claims; Strictness of the Underlying Religious Doctrine; Avail. of Other Exemptions or Alternative Methods of ID; (3) Is an Exemption Required for Fed. ID Requirements?; Lawsuits Challenging Photo Requirements; Lawsuits Challenging Photo Requirements Post-9/11; Potential Exemptions to Fed. Photo Requirements.

Author : Scott A. Merriman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book When Religious and Secular Interests Collide written by Scott A. Merriman and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2017-09-15 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the countervailing arguments in the religious exemption debate and explains why this issue continues to be so heated and controversial in modern-day America. Can religion be used to legalize discrimination? When does religion exclude a person or corporation from having to follow a federal or state law, and does our government automatically favor one faith over another when allowing such exemptions? How "religious" must an activity be to qualify as exempt? These are just a few of the difficult questions addressed in When Religious and Secular Interests Collide: Faith, Law, and the Religious Exemption Debate, one of the most modern resources for looking at religion and the law, both historically and in the present. This book enables readers to fully comprehend this important multifaceted issue that continues to be contested in our courts, legislatures, hearts, and minds. Readers will gain vital historical background about this battleground topic of academic and public interest, see how the contentious issue has changed in the past, and learn about recent developments, including the controversies surrounding religious exemption laws passed in Arkansas and Indiana in 2015. They will also glean knowledge to evaluate claims made about the First Amendment and equal rights and reach their own educated opinions on the subject. Additionally, the work includes primary source documents such as excerpts of important Supreme Court decisions accompanied by insightful analysis of how the religious exemption issue surfaced in modern American culture.

Author : John Adenitire
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110847845X
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A General Right to Conscientious Exemption written by John Adenitire and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-07-16 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sustained argument that a general right to conscientious exemption should be equally available to religious and non-religious objectors alike.

Author : James Colgrove
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520932784
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book State of Immunity written by James Colgrove and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2006-10-05 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first comprehensive history of the social and political aspects of vaccination in the United States tells the story of how vaccination became a widely accepted public health measure over the course of the twentieth century. One hundred years ago, just a handful of vaccines existed, and only one, for smallpox, was widely used. Today more than two dozen vaccines are in use, fourteen of which are universally recommended for children. State of Immunity examines the strategies that health officials have used—ranging from advertising and public relations campaigns to laws requiring children to be immunized before they can attend school—to gain public acceptance of vaccines. Like any medical intervention, vaccination carries a small risk of adverse reactions. But unlike other procedures, it is performed on healthy people, most commonly children, and has been mandated by law. Vaccination thus poses unique ethical, political, and legal questions. James Colgrove considers how individual liberty should be balanced against the need to protect the common welfare, how experts should act in the face of incomplete or inconsistent scientific information, and how the public should be involved in these decisions. A well-researched, intelligent, and balanced look at a timely topic, this book explores these issues through a vivid historical narrative that offers new insights into the past, present, and future of vaccination.