Comments on: Religious Liberty and the Supreme Court http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2010/10/09/religious-liberty-and-the-supreme-court/ A First Things Blog Wed, 22 May 2013 01:44:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Raymond Takashi Swenson http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2010/10/09/religious-liberty-and-the-supreme-court/comment-page-1/#comment-26206 Raymond Takashi Swenson Mon, 11 Oct 2010 22:16:21 +0000 http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/?p=22757#comment-26206 The argument that the First Amendment was not intended to bar laws that have a general application to all persons regardless of religion seems inconsistent to me with the expansive way the free speech clause in the first amendment has been interpreted, repeatedly, to strike down laws, or carve out exemptions from them, for all sorts of actions like offensive and provative parades, burning American flags, and commercial sexual expression. Why should judges be afraid of creating exceptions to laws that impact religious freedom when they casually create such exceptions for actions that are just expressions of merely personal opinion, involving no felt duty or obligation to deity or to a congregaiton of fellow believers?

]]> By: Joseph Knippenberg http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2010/10/09/religious-liberty-and-the-supreme-court/comment-page-1/#comment-26142 Joseph Knippenberg Sun, 10 Oct 2010 10:04:31 +0000 http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/?p=22757#comment-26142 Fixed. Thanks.

]]> By: Jonah http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2010/10/09/religious-liberty-and-the-supreme-court/comment-page-1/#comment-26139 Jonah Sun, 10 Oct 2010 05:23:50 +0000 http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/?p=22757#comment-26139 “While he admires, Justice Antonin Scalia’s…”

I don’t think that comma should be there.

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