A brief reminder from the list custodian

[Vance R Koven]

On Mon, 8 Dec 1997, Eugene Volokh wrote:

>     So perhaps one might ask, for each post:  How closely relevant is
> this to particular questions of law of government and religion, and
> how likely is it to turn the discussion away to unresolved and
> probably unresolvable matters of religious faith?

I would not presume to "answer" Gene's unanswerable call for relevance,
but by way of clarification, I'd like to inquire whether the foregoing
mission statement is intended to exclude items more generally falling
within the ambit of "law and religion" or "law and religious
institutions," gritty matters like internal governance, property,
and the like. Since I do act sporadically as general counsel for a church,
these subjects do arise and I would like to be certain that when they do
this is an appropriate forum for raising them.

Thanks.

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