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200 10$aDiscrimination against atheists$b[electronic resource] $ea new legal hierarchy among religious beliefs /$fNina Weiler-Harwell
210   $aEl Paso $cLFB Scholarly Pub.$d2011
215   $a1 online resource (204 p.)
225 1 $aLaw and society, recent scholarship
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
311   $a1-59332-441-3 
320   $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
327   $aCONTENTS; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1: Introduction; Chapter 2: Atheists and America's Civil Religion; Chapter 3: The Boy Scouts and Atheist Exclusion; Chapter 4: Michael Newdow and the Pledge of Allegiance:Is Participation in Civil Religion Truly Voluntary?; Chapter 5: Prospects for Future Action; Bibliography; Cases Cited; Index
330   $aWeiler-Harwell examines continuing, legal, discrimination against atheists, as made clear in two cases: Boy Scouts of America v. Dale (2000) and Elk Grove Unified School District v. Newdow (2004). These rulings created a new, discriminatory level of distinction for believers versus non-believers that is ahistorical in light of previous Supreme Court precedent. Both cases created new standards for analyzing equality under the law for non-conformists such as atheists, shaping a new hierarchy of protected and unprotected forms of religious belief. The new judicial standards elevate monotheistic r
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