Religion & Law

Here's Prof. John Witte (Emory), writing about the recent Lautsi decision, at Huffington Post.  A bit:

The Lautsi case echoes many familiar arguments that the United States Supreme Court has used over the past three decades to maintain traditional displays of crèches, crosses and Decalogues on government property. While not entirely convergent in their religious symbolism cases, the American and European high courts now hold six teachings in common. . . .

And . . . what, did you think he wouldn't write about this? . . . here's Stanley Fish:

In these columns I have often remarked that religion-clause jurisprudence is characterized by contortions that would be the envy of Houdini. But nothing in American jurisprudence is as contorted in its reasoning as a recent decision . . . by the European Court of Human Rights. . . .