Supreme Court won't hear appeal in CatholicCharitiesoftheDioceseof Alba...

[Steven Jamar]

isn't it about more than just spending money that would violate their
faith -- isn't it even more about being required to DO something that
would violate beliefs?

For that, who pays what doesn't matter.

On 10/3/07, Brownstein, Alan <aebrownstein at ucdavis.edu> wrote:
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> When we are talking about money – which is what this case is about – the
> free exercise interest here isn't the right of Catholic Charities to be
> exempt from a financial expense that all other employers must accept, it is
> the right not to be required to spend the money in a way that violates the
> tenets of their faith. (By analogy, the free exercise interest of the
> religious pacifist is not in being exempt from a civil obligation of public
> service for two years of his life, it is in not having that service directed
> to killing people in war.)
>
-- 
Prof. Steven Jamar
Howard University School of Law