Important Religious Liberty Victories at the Supreme Court
Important victories for religious liberty today, but the Little Sisters decision far from settles their “legal odyssey” (as Alito puts it). All that happened is that the Court let the Trump Administration broaden the exemption from what the Obama Administration offered. From what I can tell, you’d need new litigation to stop a future Democratic […]
Against (Most) Religious Exemptions for Worshippers
I’m on record supporting a wide range of religious exemptions for all kinds of people. And I only sometimes oppose them. But I am now concerned, quite concerned, that demands for religious exemptions from lockdown policies risk imposing harms on others. When religious worshippers gather together in large numbers, they can easily spread the virus, […]
When are Religious Exemptions Morally Required?
I’m writing this post as a reference for future discussions about religious exemptions. Conditions Sufficient to Morally Require a Religious Exemption I think religious exemptions from a law morally ought granted whenever the following four conditions are met: (1) The law is endorsed by the subset of the population whose support makes the law democratically […]