Chaplains, cities, souls and bodies

[Harold M Hallikainen]

On Mon, 19 Oct 1998 22:13:43 -0400 James Maule <maule at LAW.VILL.EDU>
writes:
>
>But isn't the issue not whether the state is paying for burials (EC)
>but whether the religious preferences (if known) ought to be left
>unimpeded (FE)? For example, the fact that pastors, priests and rabbis
>and others are licensed to perform marriages as representative
>witnesses of the state is not an EC violation but an accommodation to
>FE.


        Which also gets us back to the Wicca member who was not allowed to
perform a marriage.  Seems to me that a "religious test" should not be
imposed on one who performs marriages.  Instead, there should be
something like whatever is required for a Notary to perform a marriage.


Harold