Connecticut bill

[Douglas Laycock]

Earlier today we discussed a bill in Connecticut to impose Protestant forms of church governance on the Catholic Church.  The bill has been pulled and tomorrow's hearing has been cancelled, apparently due to a flood of calls to legislators.  Church leaders in Connecticut are not convinced that the issue is fully dead.  Maybe they are right; maybe they are just being cautious. 

If the link below actually works, you can find there a copy of the bill, and a copy of a letter that twelve of us sent to the Committee Co-Chairs.  We cannot take credit for killing the bill; they apparently pulled it before our letter was delivered.  I hope we can take credit for a good explanation of why it is clearly unconstitutional.   

http://www-personal.umich.edu/~laycockd/[1] 

The breadth of agreement that this one was unconstitutional, which extends far beyond the signers of this letter, is encouraging.  

Douglas Laycock
Yale Kamisar Collegiate Professor of Law
University of Michigan Law School
625 S. State St.
Ann Arbor, MI  48109-1215
  734-647-9713

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[1] http://www-personal.umich.edu/~laycockd/
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