This judgment has also come along at a time when the European Court of Human Rights» decision is awaited in the four conjoined cases of Ladele, Eweida, Macfarlane and Chaplin, all of which
involve issues of religious freedom and two of which involve the same potential conflict between the right not to be discriminated against on grounds of sexual orientation and the right to religious freedom (see our posts here, here and here).
Not exact matches
Whether one deems this cluster
of questions the third part
of an expanded just war tradition or an extension
of «right intention,» one
of the classic deontological ad bellum criteria, this is obviously an area in which considerable criticism
of the Iraq War has been focused» whether the
issue at hand
involves the scandals at Abu Ghraib prison, interrogation methods, de-Baathification policies, counterinsurgency strategies and tactics, or the provisions
of the new Iraqi constitution with respect to
religious freedom and the role
of Islamic law in post-Saddam Iraq.
The case
involving the
Religious Freedom Restoration Act presents not only an important church - state
issue, but also a significant question about the separation
of powers between Congress and the Supreme Court.
Accommodation analysis proves a shaky framework for adjudicating
religious freedom issues that
involve deep normative disputes in which a variety
of social interests are at play.