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Informationen zum Autor Marci A. Hamilton is the leading national expert on religious liberty under the First Amendment and the new extreme religious liberty statutes, including RFRA, state RFRAs, and RFRA's successor, the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA). She works for the protection of children, women, and the vulnerable from the harm that religious actors can do. Klappentext This book sets the record straight about the United States' move toward extreme religious liberty and argues for a return to common-sense religious liberty. Zusammenfassung God vs. the Gavel: The Perils of Extreme Religious Liberty sets the record straight about the United States' move toward extreme religious liberty. This thoroughly revised second edition features a new introduction and epilogue and many contemporary examples. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I. Religious Liberty Is Not a License to Harm Others: 1. The problem; 2. Children; 3. Marriage; 4. Religious land use and residential neighborhoods; 5. Schools; 6. The prisons and the military; 7. The right to discriminate; Part II. The History and Doctrine behind Common-Sense Religious Liberty: 8. Ordered liberty: religious liberty and the Supreme Court; 9. The decline of church autonomy and the rise of the no-harm rule; 10. The path to the public good.
