{"id":1766,"date":"2015-04-17T00:08:36","date_gmt":"2015-04-17T04:08:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journals.law.harvard.edu\/hlpr\/?p=1766"},"modified":"2015-04-17T00:08:36","modified_gmt":"2015-04-17T04:08:36","slug":"religious-freedom-and-other-civil-liberties-is-there-a-middle-ground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journals.law.harvard.edu\/lpr\/2015\/04\/17\/religious-freedom-and-other-civil-liberties-is-there-a-middle-ground\/","title":{"rendered":"Religious Freedom and (Other) Civil Liberties: Is There a Middle Ground?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To mark the release of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/journals.law.harvard.edu\/hlpr\/print-archive\/volume-9-1\/\">Volume 9.1<\/a>, Notice &amp; Comment will be highlighting\u00a0each of the articles in its own blog post. Today\u2019s featured article: <a href=\"http:\/\/harvardlpr.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/89\/2015\/04\/9-1_Greene.pdf\">Professor Abner S. Greene&#8217;s\u00a0<em>Religious Freedom and (Other) Civil Liberties: Is There a Middle Ground?<\/em><\/a>\u00a0Professor Greene, who is the\u00a0Leonard F. Manning Professor at Fordham Law School, writes:<\/p>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 4\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p><em>The question will always be in the details: How do we evaluate the need for uniform enforcement versus the need for accommodation? To insist on one or the other to the extreme is to insist on the truth of one\u2019s position in a way that threatens a certain kind of fundamentalism, a sureness of one\u2019s position, which is improper both as a matter of political theory and as a matter of constitutional law. In the remainder of this article, I first discuss contemporary works by intellectual historians, each of whom resists the kind of pluralism I advance. I then criticize Ronald Dworkin\u2019s final book for adopting both too expansive a view of religion and too narrow a view of how to protect it. Next, I evaluate the Court\u2019s holding in the most recent\u00a0religious accommodation case, Hobby Lobby, admiring its concern for such accommodation but critiquing its treatment of whether the law in question places a substantial burden on religious practice. Before concluding, I offer some brief thoughts on whether we should exempt from anti-discrimination law small business owners who object on religious grounds to providing services to same-sex couples in the setting of weddings or other commitment ceremonies.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Like\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/journals.law.harvard.edu\/hlpr\/2015\/04\/the-case-for-evidence-based-free-exercise-accommodation-why-the-religious-freedom-restoration-act-is-bad-public-policy\/\">several other articles\u00a0previously featured on Notice &amp; Comment<\/a>, Professor Greene&#8217;s\u00a0article is particularly relevant in light of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/journals.law.harvard.edu\/hlpr\/2015\/04\/what-really-happened-in-indiana\/\">recent controversy in Indiana<\/a>. Give it a read today!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To mark the release of\u00a0Volume 9.1, Notice &amp; Comment will be highlighting\u00a0each of the articles in its own blog post. 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