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“In a Religious Celebration”? The Religious Defense of LGBT Rights in U.S. Federal Courts

Journal of Homosexuality, 2023
This article advances scholarship on the relationship between sexuality, religion, and the law within the United States by analyzing case summaries and court opinions of the federal appellate cases decided between 1990 and 2020 that involve a religion-based claim being used to advance or defend gay and lesbian rights.
Kelsy, Burke, Emily, Kazyak, Maia, Behrendt   +2 more
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Religious Regulation and the Courts

2004
Throughout the 1990s there was a growing turmoil over interpreting the First Amendment’s free exercise clause on religion. The 1990s opened with the U.S. Supreme Court’s controversial ruling on Employment Division of Oregon v. Smith (494 U.S. 872, 1990)—a ruling that many contended dispensed with the compelling state interest test previously used by ...
John Wybraniec, Roger Finke
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Religious Practices at Court

2020
Abstract John oversaw a surprisingly active religious life at court that nonetheless failed to create an aura of pious kingship for him. Despite his reputation for impiety, recent work has shown that John carried out the religious practices expected of kings in his day, such as honouring saints’ relics, giving alms, and supporting ...
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RELIGIOUS PLURALITY AT PRINCELY COURTS

Early modern European monarchies legitimized their rule through dynasty and religion, and ideally the divine right of the ruler corresponded with the confession of the territory. It has thus been assumed that at princely courts only a single confession was present.
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Religious Courts in the Jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights

Brill Research Perspectives in Law and Religion, 2015
AbstractReligious courts have for centuries been part of the European legal landscape. Almost all churches and religious communities have their own judicial systems, often composed of courts or tribunals ordered hierarchically. The aim of this paper is to present cases from the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights, in which a religious ...
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Courting Epistemology: Legal Scholarship, the Courts, and the Rationality of Religious Belief

Oxford Journal of Law and Religion, 2014
What we here show is two-fold. First, there is in certain sectors of the legalcommunity a trend to pronounce negatively on the epistemic credentials ofreligious belief: many hold that religious belief as such is simply irrational. Oursecond claim is simply that religious belief need not be irrational: it is perfectlypossible for religious believers to ...
S. Holzer, J. Fuqua
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Religious Courts and Rights in Plural Societies: Interlegal Gaps and the Need for Complex Concurrency

Law and Ethics of Human Rights, 2021
Jaclyn L Neo
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MARRIAGE DISPENSATION AT THE BITUNG RELIGIOUS COURT

2023
This research aims to analyze the judges' considerations in deciding the case of marriage dispensation at the Bitung Religious Court in case Numbers 157/Pdt.P/2019/PA.Bitg and 130/Pdt.P/2020/PA Bitg. The research method used is the empirical juridical method with a qualitative-descriptive approach, while the data collection techniques use interview and
Willya, Evra, Herawati, Nenden, Olii, Masita   +2 more
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Religious Courts

2023
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Religious Liberty and the American Supreme Court

2013
Throughout American history, legal battles concerning the First Amendment’s protection of religious liberty have been among the most contentious issue of the rights guaranteed by the United States Constitution.Religious Liberty and the American Supreme Court: The Essential Cases and Documents,second edition, represents the most authoritative and up-to ...
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