Discrimination against atheists: a new legal hierarchy among religious beliefs

"Weiler-Harwell examines continuing, legal, discrimination against atheists, as made clear in two cases: Boy Scouts of America v. Dale (2000) and Elk Grove Unified School District v. Newdow (2004). These rulings created a new, discriminatory level of distinction for believers versus non-believe...

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1. Verfasser: Weiler-Harwell, Nina 1963- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: El Paso LFB Scholarly Publ. 2011
Schriftenreihe:Law and society
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Zusammenfassung:"Weiler-Harwell examines continuing, legal, discrimination against atheists, as made clear in two cases: Boy Scouts of America v. Dale (2000) and Elk Grove Unified School District v. Newdow (2004). These rulings created a new, discriminatory level of distinction for believers versus non-believers that is ahistorical in light of previous Supreme Court precedent. Both cases created new standards for analyzing equality under the law for non-conformists such as atheists, shaping a new hierarchy of protected and unprotected forms of religious belief. The new judicial standards elevate monotheistic religious belief over the neutrality standard that had been heralded in prior Supreme Court decisions and create a kind of American Civil Religion"--Provided by publisher
Beschreibung:Literaturverz. S. 157 - 187
Atheists and America's civil religion -- The Boy Scouts and atheist exclusion -- Michael Newdow and the Pledge of Allegiance : is participation in civil religion truely voluntary? -- Prospects for future action
Beschreibung:IX, 194 S. 23 cm
ISBN:9781593324414
1593324413

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