God Bless Us, Everyone

[Gene Summerlin]

At 10:26 AM 12/12/96 -0500, Steve wrote:


>It seems Yoder makes a distinction
>between religion and non-religion and expressly states that religion is
>implicated in the religious freedom clauses and that secular philosophies
>are not.  Though I, like a number of others on this list and the Supreme
>Court have trouble making the religious/non-religious distinction (and some
>statutes have been interpreted to relate to matters of conscience generally
>(draft, Title VII)), it still must be made.

For what its worth, I think Steve has identified the problem - what is the
difference between "religion" and "secular philosophies" and when does a
"secular philosophy" cross the line (whatever the line is) and become
"religion?"


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