{"id":463,"date":"2004-02-25T13:14:35","date_gmt":"2004-02-25T20:14:35","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=463"},"modified":"2004-10-01T13:14:02","modified_gmt":"2004-10-01T17:14:02","slug":"civic-religion-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2004\/02\/civic-religion-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Civic Religion &#8211; Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For those not aware of the fact, the Supreme Court handed down its decision in Locke v. Davey a few hours ago, holding that it did not violate the Free Exercise Clause for the State of Washington to exempt divinity degree applicants from an otherwise available scholarship fund.  I am not going to comment here on the opinion itself, but there was a line from Justice Scalia&#8217;s dissent that brought to mind <a href=\"http:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/archives\/000167.html\">an earlier discussion here at T&#038;S on civic religion.<\/a><br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nFor those who missed the earlier fireworks, I suggested that much of our public, political religiousity represented a desicated and potentially blasphemous form of religion.  Russell, Adam, and others vehemently disagreed.  Given that discussion, I thought that this passage from the Scalia dissent was interesting:<\/p>\n<ul>Most citizens of this country indentify themselves as professing some religous belief, but the State&#8217;s policy poses no obstacle to practitioners of only a tepid, civic version of faith.  Those the statutory exclusion actually affects &#8212; those whos belief in their religion is so strong that they dedicate their study and their lives to its ministry &#8212; are a far narrower set.  One need not delve too far into modern popular culture to perceive a trendy disdain for deep religious conviction.<\/ul>\n<p>Locke v. Davis, 540 U.S. ___ (2004) (Scalia J. dissenting), slip op. at 9.<\/p>\n<p>Scalia also notes recent attempts in France to ban religious attire in schools.  I can only assume that he has been <a href=\"http:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/archives\/000206.html\">reading T&#038;S.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those not aware of the fact, the Supreme Court handed down its decision in Locke v. Davey a few hours ago, holding that it did not violate the Free Exercise Clause for the State of Washington to exempt divinity degree applicants from an otherwise available scholarship fund. I am not going to comment here on the opinion itself, but there was a line from Justice Scalia&#8217;s dissent that brought to mind an earlier discussion here at T&#038;S on civic religion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}