"Mormon Student, Justice, ACLU Join Up"

[David E. Guinn]

Isn't this analogous to the conscientious objector cases where sincere commitment should determine the exemption?  David

> Subject: RE: "Mormon Student, Justice, ACLU Join Up"> Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 10:49:38 -0700> From: VOLOKH at law.ucla.edu> To: religionlaw at lists.ucla.edu> > 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> _______________________________________________> To post, send message to Religionlaw at lists.ucla.edu> To subscribe, unsubscribe, change options, or get password, see http://lists.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/religionlaw> > Please note that messages sent to this large list cannot be viewed as private. Anyone can subscribe to the list and read messages that are posted; people can read the Web archives; and list members can (rightly or wrongly) forward the messages to others.
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