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The Apostle, Mr. Justice Jackson, and the ?Pathological Perspective? of the Free Exercise Clause

By Alliance Alert

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By permitting juries to inquire into a religious leader's subjective good faith belief in the tenets of the faith, the Ballard majority provides an insufficient shield against prosecutions based on antipathy toward a particular religious sect's beliefs. The better view, ably expressed by Justice Robert Jackson in his dissent, would have disallowed inquiries into either the factual truth of a religious sect's beliefs or into the subjective beliefs of a religious leader because it is unrealistic to expect jurors to ?separate an issue as to what is believed from considerations as to what is believable.?

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on December 30, 2008 (boomark / email).

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