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?The New Wave of Extreme State Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) Legislation: Why It?s Dangerous?

By ADF Alliance Alert

Marci Hamilton writes at Findlaw: "Child safety has routinely been undermined by religious organizations arguing for religious liberty "guarantees" in cases involving medical neglect by faith-healing parents; the regulation of religious schools, camps and social-service providers; and child sex abuse by clergy. I discussed these issues in some detail in my 2007 book God vs. the Gavel: Religion and the Rule of Law, so Professor Dwyer's remarks did not surprise me, but they apparently did surprise many in the law-and-religion field -- testifying, I suppose, to the larger problem of the overspecialization of law professors. On the RFRA issue, as I will explain, it is the family-law professors who are correct: RFRAs were, and continue to be, a dangerous legal innovation."

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on October 14, 2010 (boomark / email).