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Author Weiler-Harwell, Nina, 1963-

Title Discrimination against Atheists : a New Legal Hierarchy among Religious Beliefs.

Publication Info. El Paso : LFB Scholarly Pub. LLC, 2011.
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Description 1 online resource (204 pages).
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Series Law and Society
Recht und Gesellschaft.
Contents Acknowledgments; Chapter 1: Introduction; Chapter 2: Atheists and America's Civil Religion; Chapter 3: The Boy Scouts and Atheist Exclusion; Chapter 4: Michael Newdow and the Pledge of Allegiance:Is Participation in Civil Religion Truly Voluntary?; Chapter 5: Prospects for Future Action; Bibliography; Cases Cited; Index.
Summary Weiler-Harwell examines continuing, legal, discrimination against atheists, as made clear in two cases: Boy Scouts of America v. Dale (2000) and Elk Grove Unified School District v. Newdow (2004). These rulings created a new, discriminatory level of distinction for believers versus non-believers that is ahistorical in light of previous Supreme Court precedent. Both cases created new standards for analyzing equality under the law for non-conformists such as atheists, shaping a new hierarchy of protected and unprotected forms of religious belief. The new judicial standards elevate monotheistic r.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-187) and index.
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Subject Atheists -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States.
Atheists.
United States.
Religious discrimination -- Law and legislation -- United States.
Religious discrimination -- Law and legislation.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Weiler-Harwell, Nina. Discrimination against Atheists : A New Legal Hierarchy among Religious Beliefs. El Paso : LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC, ©2011 9781593324414
ISBN 9781593326753
1593326750
9781593324414 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
1593324413 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)

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