Catholic Charities Issue

[Rick Duncan]

Doug is right--land use planners also target the
ordinary activities of mainstream religious ministries
that are merely trying to worship or do good works. 

But one difference is that zoning laws don't
stigmatize ministries as outlaws whose activities and
programs are contrary to the law and deserving of
condemnation and punishment. Zoning laws just say "not
in this neighborhood." 

Nevertheless, thank God for RLUIPA.

Rick


--- Douglas Laycock <DLaycock at law.utexas.edu> wrote:

> Rick asks:
>  
> "Who else has a political agenda that targets the
> ordinary activities (such as adoption ministries and
> health benefits) of mainstream religious
> institutions and turns these ministries into
> unlawful acts."
>  
>  
> Answer:  Land use planners.
>  
> On the conflict between sexual liberty and religious
> liberty, I didn't say we were getting it right under
> current law.  I said there's no reason except
> overreaching by both sides why we couldn't get it
> right under the law going forward.
>  
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  Rick Duncan 
Welpton Professor of Law 
University of Nebraska College of Law 
Lincoln, NE 68583-0902
   
  
"When the Round Table is broken every man must follow either Galahad or Mordred: middle things are gone." C.S.Lewis, Grand Miracle

"I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered." --The Prisoner



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