Many "exemptions" can be described also as affirmative accommodations. The
person bringing his or her own meal into a restaurant is taking up table space
that might otherwise be used by a patron ordering from the menu. Allowing it
however may just be good business practice, since otherwise the
Doug's distinction between exemptions and accommodations is helpful, but the
cause of the problem isn't limited to free exercise cases. If we are talking
about freedom of speech, for example, many people would describe the decision
of a bookstore to reject a request to carry particular books in
Perhaps we need to distinguish between two types of accommodation: those that
burden third parties and those that do not. Making a non-sabbatarian work on
Saturday shifts a burden from a sabbatarian to a third party. Allowing an
orthodox Jew to bring a kosher meal to the non-kosher restaurant d
rs seek an accommodation
that would require action by others.
Eugene
Alan writes:
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An exemption is an accommodation to a person or set of persons or institutions
wanting their practices to be accommodated through not requiring them to abide
by the rules applicable to everyone else. That is in all meanings of the word
an accommodation. It is being left alone, but in a special
