Title: RE: The Amish
Avi Shick
writes:
I guess one way to get at the question is
whether you think that the result in Yoder should have been different because of
theconduct described in the Legal Affairs article?
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I have always found the
>From Doug Laycock's description, the Board did not allow the nativity
scene, but permitted a Menorah and a Kwanza display. I read that to
indicate that no other Christmas display was provided as a substitute for
the nativity scene. If that is what occurred, I consider it an error of
judgement
I doubt Yoder comes out the same today -- even with this Court. The advent of home schooling to state-set standards changes things substantially, I think. We now generally accept that the state may set certain standards for education up to a certain age -- though we do "allow drop-outs" -- and th
Again, I speak for me, not Sandy. I think that the Court did not find Kiryas
Joel very attractive litigants and their request -- for state funds for their
own school district -- seemed such an obvious violation of the establishment
clause, while the Amish were just asking to be exempt from the
Professor Levinson
Thank you for your clarifications.I still don't see the
constitutional dimension that is so clearly visible to you and Professor
Finkelman. I guess one way to get at the question is whether you think
that the result in Yoder should have been different because of the
conduct
I thought about the possibility that the numbers were over/under reported as I listened to reports this last week on the death toll from the tsunamis following the Christmas evening earthquake. Sometime around Monday, I started to hear stories that as many as 1/3 of those killed were children. A
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Avi Shick raises the following questions:
I'm somewhat confused by your statement that "even if the article is off
by 50% with regard to the actual number of young women who are raped or
othe
I don't want to answer Sandy, but my sense of the constitutional issue is
this: Yoder was in part a result of C.J. Burger's assertions that the Amish
were a quaint, quite, productive historical artifact that had survived into
the 20th century and they needed to be left alone so they could pros
Professor Levinson
I'm somewhat confused by your statement that "even if the article is off
by 50% with regard to the actual number of young women who are raped or
otherwise abused by their fathers and, especially, brothers, it
nevertheless states a powerful claim."
Any abuse of the sort recoun
Will Linden wrote:
But surely this belief by "Christians" comes from the campaign of
Jewish me-tooism as a response to the "December dilemna", along with
performances of "Judas Maccabaeus" being mounted to compete with "The
Messiah", and peddling of (Gah!) "Hanukkah bushes". All of which has
n
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