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The First Amendment is stirring second thoughts among scholars wary of the social and legal consequences of religious liberty. Herself a witness for the plaintiffs, Sullivan recounts the tangled courtroom drama in a Boca Raton case in which a group of Catholic, Protestant, and Jewish families unsuccessfully sought a religious exemption to city ordinances prohibiting any vertical cemetery memorials (including upright crosses, statues, candles, and Stars of David). What emerges from Sullivan's carefully documented analysis of the case is the irreducible diversity of American religions-and the profound difficulty of accommodating such a wide range of beliefs, especially when individual convictions and practices diverge from official orthodoxies. Consequently, in reluctantly ruling against the Boca Raton plaintiffs, the judge voices perplexities now all too typical of American jurists trying to balance the rights of individual conscience against the demands of public order and democratic governance. Bryce Christensen
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The First Amendment is stirring second thoughts among scholars wary of the social and legal consequences of religious liberty. Herself a witness for the plaintiffs, Sullivan recounts the tangled courtroom drama in a Boca Raton case in which a group of Catholic, Protestant, and Jewish families unsuccessfully sought a religious exemption to city ordinances prohibiting any vertical cemetery memorials (including upright crosses, statues, candles, and Stars of David). What emerges from Sullivan's carefully documented analysis of the case is the irreducible diversity of American religions-and the profound difficulty of accommodating such a wide range of beliefs, especially when individual convictions and practices diverge from official orthodoxies. Consequently, in reluctantly ruling against the Boca Raton plaintiffs, the judge voices perplexities now all too typical of American jurists trying to balance the rights of individual conscience against the demands of public order and democratic governance. Bryce Christensen
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"... implies we have overestimated the amount of real religious differences that even a tolerant democracy can handle". -- Christopher Caldwell, Financial Times
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THE EVENTS LEADING UP TO the trial in the Warner case took place in the City of Boca Raton, which is located in the southern Florida county of Palm Beach. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
regarding religious exercise, independent religious significance, vertical grave markers, cemetery manager, been observed continuously, grave decorations, vertical decorations, vertical tombstones, authoritative sacred text, cemetery regulations, cemetery rules, religiously motivated persons, vertical monuments, plot owners, talking theology, flat markers, religion experts, horizontal markers, edging stones, municipal cemetery, rural cemetery movement, cognizable claim, religion clauses, normative pluralism, vertical marker Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, First Amendment, The Witness, Sacred Heart, Bruce Rogow, Jim Green, Roman Catholic, Palm Beach, New York, Daniel Pals, Virgin Mary, Richard Warner, Fourteenth Amendment, Michael Broyde, Holy Sepulchre, Joanne Davis, Barbara Cavedoni, Bill of Rights, Jesus Christ, Miriam Warner, Arlington National Cemetery, Miss Monier, Native American Church, New Testament, Orthodox Christian New!
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- The Jewish Way in Death and Mourning (Revised and Expanded Edition) by Maurice Lamm on 5 pages
- Seven Theories of Religion by Daniel L. Pals on 4 pages
- Who Are the Jews of India? by Nathan Katz on page 73, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Pursuit of Equality in American History, Second edition, Revised and Enlarged (A Centennial Book) by J. R. Pole in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- The New Catholic Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition (15 Volume Set) by Catholic University of America on page 38, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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