RE: On topic discussion regarding homosexuality

2004-04-16 Thread Newsom Michael
I wonder whether it is appropriate to try to ground a position one way or the other on same-sex marriage on ONE policy consideration. (And I don't read Eugene as advancing such a position, and thus I agree with him, at least on this point.) I am not sure that heterosexual marriage can be said to

French Scarves

2004-04-16 Thread Robert Obrien
I will be putting together an article on the Stasi Report and the subsequent French law.  I will welcome citation of any relevant articles.   Bob O'Brien NTMail K12 - the Mail Server for Education ___ To post, send message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To sub

Re: Locke and Rosenberger

2004-04-16 Thread Lupu
However broad Locke may be, it strongly suggests that Rosenberger is very narrow indeed. While Locke was pending in the Supreme Court, a number of articles appeared arguing that many government expenditure programs (e.g., school vouchers, social service programs relying on private contractors)

Re: Locke and Rosenberger

2004-04-16 Thread Rick Duncan
--- Douglas Laycock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The principal thrust of the Locke opinion > is that funding the > clergy has a special tradition, and that there is no > right to such > funding. On that rationale, Chip is right and a > future Court could just > say that there is no si

Re: Locke and Rosenberger

2004-04-16 Thread Rick Duncan
To follow up on the discussion about the distinction between subject and viewpoint discrimination, does anyone have an opinion about the best law review articles (if any) trying to work through this issue? Rick = Rick Duncan Welpton Professor of Law University of Nebraska College of Law Li

Re: Locke and Rosenberger

2004-04-16 Thread Alan Brownstein
Rick makes several good points, but I still think the issue is not as clear as he suggests. Rick argues that discrimination against "devotional" theology majors constitutes viewpoint discrimination while discrimination against "objective" theology majors might be more properly characterized

Re: Locke and Rosenberger

2004-04-16 Thread Douglas Laycock
The principal thrust of the Locke opinion is that funding the clergy has a special tradition, and that there is no right to such funding. On that rationale, Chip is right and a future Court could just say that there is no similar tradition with respect to women's studies. But t

Re: Locke and Rosenberger

2004-04-16 Thread Rick Duncan
--- "A.E. Brownstein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >While the Court has recognized discrimination > against religious speech to > constitute viewpoint discrimination in several > cases, many of those cases, > including Rosenberger, involved regulations with a > fairly clear viewpoint > discrimina