Monday, July 5, 2010

Last Week's Other Big Supreme Court Decision

American Thinker "If you believe that religious groups should be able to set their own terms of membership, and should be able to require that people of their own faith lead their own groups, without suffering punishment at the hands of the state, then you should care about this case."

CLS v. Martinez: Some Thoughts on the Recent Supreme Court Decision  Some scholarly discussion on this subject. This case passed through the 9th Circuit Court and was upheld!

The high court's ruling against the Christian Legal Society leaves more legal questions than answers . "In the run-up to the oral arguments, CLS found support outside the evangelical world: A libertarian gay group, a Muslim group, and 14 states filed briefs in support of the Christian group. And The Washington Post penned an editorial excoriating Hastings. CLS speculated that under Hastings’ policy, atheists could take over a Christian group, or white supremacists could take over an African-American student group.
“This supposition strikes us as more hypothetical than real,” wrote Ginsburg. "

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