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Are There No Limits to Religious Freedom?
宗教自由真的沒有邊界嗎?
導讀
Does a Catholic school have a constitutional right to demand state funds for its pre-K program while refusing to admit four-year-olds whose parents are gay or transgender, when the state requires all recipients of such funding not to exclude children on that basis? You might think the answer would obviously be no. And for most […]
科羅拉多州要求接受公共資金的學前班不得歧視性少數家庭,一教區以宗教自由為由起訴,最高法院將審理此案。作者梳理判例認為,中立且普遍適用的法律不構成對宗教自由的侵犯,科羅拉多應勝訴。
推薦理由
這是一篇典型的判例評論文,適合練習法律論證的閱讀路徑:先抓作者的核心立場,再看他如何用 Employment Division v. Smith 等先例逐條拆解教區的三項主張。文中大量同義替換(neutral、generally applicable、comparable)和因果鏈(若允許豁免則無邊界)是考研、雅思、托福推斷題的高頻考點,也能練作者態度的辨識。
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