"Mormon Student, Justice, ACLU Join Up"

[Volokh, Eugene]

    A quick question:  Say the Mormon student wins, on a Sherbert-like
rationale.  Another student wants a similar exemption on the grounds
that he feels a religious motivation to take two years off to meditate,
or to make money to help support his family, or to fulfill what he sees
as God's command to step back from formal education and take time to
find the meaning of life.  Assume that the student's religious
motivation for this is found to be sincere.  
 
    I take it that he'd have to be treated the same as the Mormon,
right?  I'm not saying that this is a particularly horrible result, but
I just wanted to explore what the result would end up being.
 
    Eugene