| Description |
ix, 306 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 260-298) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: Jesus take the wheel -- Author's note: jargon be damned -- Part I: Battle plans, targets, and the call to arms -- Christian legal supremacy -- The court and the crusade -- Drawing lines -- Drawing lines: bigotry in Kentucky (Davis v. Ermold) -- It was never about a cake (Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission) -- Part II: Opening hostilities -- Hostility in Hialeah (Church of the Lukumi Babalu Aye v. City of Hialeah) -- The Muslim ban (Trump v. Hawaii) -- It was never about the drugs (Employment Division v. Smith) -- Restoring Christian supremacy (The Religous Freedom Restoration Act of 1993) -- Part III: The onslaught -- The war on women (Burwell v. Hobby Lobby stores) -- Religous freedom is killing us (the Covid cases) -- Deus vult revisited (American Legion v. American Humanist Association, the Bladensburg Cross case) -- Targeting children, taxing everyone (Trinity Lutheran Church v. Comer) -- No, really, religious freedom is taxing us (Espinoza v. the Montana Department of Revenue) -- Religous freedom and segregation academies (school vouchers cases) -- Religious freedom and "promoting the general welfare" (Fulton v. Philadelphia, same-sex foster parents case) -- What's next? -- Conclusion: the end of religious freedom? |
| Summary |
"Seidel examines some of the key Supreme Court cases of the last thirty years--including Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission (a bakery that refused to make a wedding cake for a gay couple), Trump v. Hawaii (the anti-Muslim travel ban case), American Legion v. American Humanist Association (related to a group maintaining a 40-foot Christian cross on government-owned land), and Tandon v. Newsom (a Santa Clara Bible group exempted from Covid health restrictions), as well as the recent overturning of Roe v. Wade--and how a hallowed legal protection, freedom of religion, has been turned into a tool to advance privilege and impose religion on others. This is a meticulously researched and deeply insightful account of our political landscape with a foreword provided by noted constitutional scholar Erwin Chemerinsky, author of The Case Against the Supreme Court."--provided by publisher. |
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Freedom of religion -- United States -- History.
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Church and state -- United States -- History.
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Judicial opinions -- United States -- History.
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United States. Supreme Court -- Cases.
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Judges -- United States -- Attitudes -- History.
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United States. Supreme Court -- History.
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Political questions and judicial power -- United States.
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| Added Author |
Chemerinsky, Erwin, writer of foreword.
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| ISBN |
9781454943921 (hardcover) |
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1454943920 (hardcover) |
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