racial and religious tolerance -Reply

[Mark Tushnet]

In connection with the "european" view of "cults, people
might want to look at Kokkinakis v. Greece, 17 EHRR 397
(European Court of Human Rights 1993), which holds that a
Greek ban on proselytizing--across-the-board, but applied in
this instance to a Jehovah's Witness--violated the European
Convention on Human Rights.  The ban was in pursuit of the
legimate aim of protecting the rights of others (the
proselytizer's targets), but was not necessary in a
democratic society.  The Court suggested that a ban limited
to what we might call aggressive proselytizing might be
permissible.