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If there is any one dietary demand that cannot be refused, communion wine is it. The issue came up in the Senate debates on RFRA and by a thumping two-to-one vote, the Senate agreed with me. If one looks at the question in historical context, the case against denying communion wine is overwhelming.
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I do think an inmate's dietary demands based on religion could be denied. I just can't imagine a situation where they would indeed need to be -- where the religious dietary demands are such that compliance is much of burden. It is not a burden to serve beans as well as beef; chicken as well as pork.
One dietary demand that could be refused: wine in communion, I should think -- if all alcohol is banned.
Steve
On Jun 1, 2005, at 5:12 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm just curious if anyone in the ivory tower believes that an inmate's dietary demands, based on religion, can ever be denied under RLUIPA? (And set aside the games-playing CONS and their steak and sherry-- I am talking about sincere religious believers making a variety of dietary demands.) So far, it doesn't sound like it.
Marci
-- Prof. Steven D. Jamar vox: 202-806-8017 Howard University School of Law fax: 202-806-8428 2900 Van Ness Street NW mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Washington, DC 20008 http://www.law.howard.edu/faculty/pages/jamar
"I have the audacity to believe that peoples everywhere can have three meals a day for their bodies, education and culture for their minds, and dignity, equality and freedom for their spirits."
Martin Luther King, Jr., (1964, on accepting the Nobel Peace Prize)
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