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Something I Don't Claim to Understand


 I can't really claim to understand this, but I'll link to it here because some of you might.  So maybe you can explain it to me.

I believe that the Supreme Court has in recent terms (since the Baker/Gay-Weddings thing -- actually since further back) in essence erased everything on the blackboard with regard to free exercise of religion law. And perhaps establishment law, too. Since then, instead of trying to put some new coherent guidelines up on the blackboard, they have been going in a very ad hoc way through the cases that get to them, deciding everything on the basis of spit polish and gut feelings and hoping that at some point it will add up to a coherent doctrine. 

It hasn't yet. Some day it might. Stranger things have happened.   

Anyway, the thing I don't claim to understand is the judgment, and cluster of decisions in Harvest Rock Church and South Bay United Pentecostal.    The court seems split several ways: I don't grok the alignment. 

(That's Alito above, by the way.) 

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