Tuesday, April 26, 2011

A bizarre religious freedom case for the Supremes

Richard Garnett talks about the  Hosanna-Tabor case. It is a little complicated for me and likely way over the heads of the Supremes, not the brightest bulbs around. I think is boils down to whether religions have to obey labor laws, a religious teacher was fired for having a disability.

As I understand it, religious freedom in this nation is about the freedom for organized psychotic behavior, the belief that decaying corpses float into the clouds, for example. I would think that as long as membership is voluntary, and they do not hurt non-members, then religious should be free to fire people at will, regardless of labor law.

What is the likely outcome of this case? Who knows with this court.

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