Re: Scalia Decreis Drift of Court On Religion

2008-06-03 Thread Brad & Linda
I'm not sure the author of the majority opinion in Employment Division V Smith is the most credible voice to criticize the Court's handling of religion. Brad Pardee - Original Message - From: Joel Sogol To: Religionlaw Sent: Monday, June 02, 2008 6:44 PM Subject: Scalia Decre

Re: U.S. AIR FORCE: The Cancer From Within

2007-11-11 Thread Brad & Linda
Interesting article. Would've been even more interesting if it had been written by somebody who didn't have an obvious anti-evangelical bias. To put overly zealous evangelical Christians in the same category as Hitler and Mussolini (and when the author uses the term "fascism", that's exactly w

Phelps, IIED, offensiveness, and precedent

2007-11-02 Thread Brad & Linda
RE: IIED and vaguenessI've been following this issue with great interest as a conservative evangelical who considers the Phelps gang (I refuse to call them a church) truly evil and indefensible and who (and I realize this is probably not Christ-like love) likes to contemplate Mr. Phelps ultimate

Laying the groundwork for the loss of an accomodation

2007-10-18 Thread Brad & Linda
I found this article about people falsely claiming religious exemptions for vaccination requirements very troubling for the future of legislatively accomodating the religious beliefs of people. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071018/ap_on_re_us/vaccine_skeptics I know that one of the stories you h