In Sincerely Held, Charles McCrary provides an original account of how sincerely held religious belief became the primary standard for determining what legally counts as authentic religion.McCrary skillfully traces the interlocking histories of American sincerity, religion, and secularism starting in the ...
"A sweeping, fascinating and engaging account of how American secularism created the ‘character of the sincere believer’ and cast ‘sincerely held religious belief’ as constitutive of religion in law and the standard by which certain practices are rejected ‘as not truly religious.’ . . . Th...
But an individual's "sincerely held" religious belief does not have to be part of an organized-religion mandate to be considered a valid reason for exemption from getting the vaccine. "It can be a personal, sincerely held religious belief which arises from the very nature of freedom of ...
glamorous or desirable, (f) glamorizes the use or “hard-core” illegal substances or drugs, (g) denigrates or offends any ethnic, racial, sexual or religious group, or persons who are physically or mentally challenged, (h) makes inappropriate use of swastikas or other symbols of racism or...
Sensitive Personal Information,such as Social Security, driver's license, passport, or state ID card numbers; account or debit or credit card numbers combined with passwords or codes that would enable access to the accounts; exact geolocation; racial origin, religious beliefs, or union membership;...
should determine sincerely-held religious belief in free exercise of religion claims by for-profit companies as of September 2013. Topics discussed include description of basics of the claim and lessons from legal cases associated with free exercise of religion such as Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc. v....
2. See id. The trial court was not able to determineCoffman, Erin DNew Eng.l.revCOFFMAN, Erin D. Pielech v. Massasoit Greyhound, Inc.: Can a "Sincerely Held Religious Belief" Have Meaning? New England Law Review, v. 117, p. 32, 1997....