Religious Liberty Protection Act of 1998 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Religious Liberty Protection Act of 1998 write by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on the Constitution. This book was released on 2000. Religious Liberty Protection Act of 1998 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Religious Liberty and the American Supreme Court
Religious Liberty and the American Supreme Court - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Religious Liberty and the American Supreme Court write by Vincent Phillip Munoz. This book was released on 2015-03-27. Religious Liberty and the American Supreme Court available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Throughout American history, legal battles concerning the First Amendment’s protection of religious liberty have been among the most contentious issue of the rights guaranteed by the United States Constitution. Religious Liberty and the American Supreme Court: The Essential Cases and Documents represents the most authoritative and up-to-date overview of the landmark cases that have defined religious freedom in America. Noted religious liberty expert Vincent Philip Munoz (Notre Dame) provides carefully edited excerpts from over fifty of the most important Supreme Court religious liberty cases. In addition, Munoz’s substantive introduction offers an overview on the constitutional history of religious liberty in America. Introductory headnotes to each case provides the constitutional and historical context. Religious Liberty and the American Constitution is an indispensable resource for anyone interested matters of religious freedom from the Republic’s earliest days to current debates.
The Myth of American Religious Freedom
The Myth of American Religious Freedom - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Myth of American Religious Freedom write by David Sehat. This book was released on 2011-01-14. The Myth of American Religious Freedom available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the battles over religion and politics in America, both liberals and conservatives often appeal to history. Liberals claim that the Founders separated church and state. But for much of American history, David Sehat writes, Protestant Christianity was intimately intertwined with the state. Yet the past was not the Christian utopia that conservatives imagine either. Instead, a Protestant moral establishment prevailed, using government power to punish free thinkers and religious dissidents. In The Myth of American Religious Freedom, Sehat provides an eye-opening history of religion in public life, overturning our most cherished myths. Originally, the First Amendment applied only to the federal government, which had limited authority. The Protestant moral establishment ruled on the state level. Using moral laws to uphold religious power, religious partisans enforced a moral and religious orthodoxy against Catholics, Jews, Mormons, agnostics, and others. Not until 1940 did the U.S. Supreme Court extend the First Amendment to the states. As the Supreme Court began to dismantle the connections between religion and government, Sehat argues, religious conservatives mobilized to maintain their power and began the culture wars of the last fifty years. To trace the rise and fall of this Protestant establishment, Sehat focuses on a series of dissenters--abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison, suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton, socialist Eugene V. Debs, and many others. Shattering myths held by both the left and right, David Sehat forces us to rethink some of our most deeply held beliefs. By showing the bad history used on both sides, he denies partisans a safe refuge with the Founders.
Debating Religious Liberty and Discrimination
Debating Religious Liberty and Discrimination - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Debating Religious Liberty and Discrimination write by John Corvino. This book was released on 2017. Debating Religious Liberty and Discrimination available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book explores emerging conflicts about religious liberty and discrimination. In point-counterpoint format, it brings together longtime LGBT rights advocate John Corvino and rising conservative thinkers Ryan T. Anderson and Sherif Girgis to debate Religious Freedom Restoration Acts (RFRAs), anti-discrimination law, and age-old questions about identity, morality, and society.
The Right to Be Wrong
The Right to Be Wrong - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Right to Be Wrong write by Kevin Seamus Hasson. This book was released on 2012-08-14. The Right to Be Wrong available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the running debate we call the "culture wars," there exists a great feud over religious diversity. One side demands that only their true religion be allowed in the public square; the other insists that no religions ever belong there. The Right to Be Wrong offers a solution, drawing its lessons from a series of stories--both contemporary and historical--that illustrates the struggle to define religious freedom. The book concludes that freedom for all is guaranteed by the truth about each of us: Our common humanity entitles us to freedom--within broad limits--to follow what we believe to be true as our consciences say we must, even if our consciences are mistaken. Thus, we can respect others' freedom when we're sure they're wrong. In truth, they have the right to be wrong.
