哈佛公开课：公正该如何做是好Free Exercise and Religious Accommodations Free Exercise of Religion 1. What distinguishes Mill’s argument from Bentham’s?Mill and Bentham both endorse the harm principle. Utilitarians, they both rest their moral liberalism on an appeal to consequences. But they offer ...
None of these are reasons that would qualify Frank for a religious exemption from the vaccine. However, because the religious exemption standard is so loosey-goosey, Frank might be able to claim it, whether he’s an actual believer or not. First, he gets the benefit of the doubt. Secon...
Furthermore, the Court held that this decision applies only to the contraceptive mandate in question and not to all possible objections to the Affordable Care Act for religious reasons, as feared by the main dissent. With the same sense of accommodation, in Zubik v. Burwell (578 US 664 (...
Some Faith-Based Homes Resist State License, Funds; Exemption Allowed for Religious ReasonsByline: Marcia Mattson, Times-Union staff writer Problems in the foster care system are only...Mattson, Marcia
This article illustrates the reasons for this growing tension between the beliefs of business owners and the beliefs of their employees. It explores recent conflicts between religion and rights in the workplace particularly in the context of LGBTQ rights, the ways in which state-level regulation ...
Giving space, in a hetero- and theonormative society, to religious conservatives to use religious conscience to deny goods and services implicates the state in perpetuating homophobia. There are three reasons for this. First, the state has a duty to ensure the safety and security of its citizens...
Perry notes that it would be impractical to understand freedom of religion as protecting any religiously motivated act: [T]he right to freedom of religious exercise does not - because it cannot - privilege one to do, on the basis of religious belief or for religious reasons, whatever one ...
[iii] Bill Viola, Reasons for Knocking at an Empty House: Writings 1973-1994 (London: Thames & Hudson, 1995) 54. [iv] Moses, 31. [v] Ibid., 26. I took the photograph in California’s Alabama Hills, where I have run among wildflowers and slept beneath the stars. The mountain peak...
But that rationale “devalues religious reasons” for congregating “by judging them to be of lesser import than nonreligious reasons,” in violation of the Constitution. More broadly, the State insists that it is in the midst of an emergency and that it should receive deference from the ...
The Commission asserts that the basis for this recommendation is that Commonwealth law does not recognise the ability of corporate bodies to receive protection from anti-discrimination law, and that international law does not protect the rights of religious bodies. For the reasons set out below, bot...