Non-Christians never win

[Steven D. Jamar]

Thanks, Doug.

In my own actions relating to religious freedom, I have found (both in representing
clients and in direct arguments at the more legislative or executive level, i.e., not
in court) that some judges and many, many people are extremely hostile and
closed-minded to anyone making any claim to be subject to what appear to be different
sets of rules  - permission to wear a beard, for example.  This hostility has at
times been accompanied by an inability to even conceive of anyone believing what the
person actually believed - in one court case the judge simply could not imagine a
Christian wilfully disobeying a court order under Title VII where the client claimed
that he could not do so or he would be damned to hell.  The judge could not imagine
that anyone could hold such a belief.

If you want to do something nearly impossible, argue on behalf of a Muslim in almost
any setting.

Steve

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Essay:  A loose sally of the mind; an irregular indigested piece; not a regular and
orderly composition.

Samuel Johnson, Dictionary (1755)