TY  - BOOK
AU  - Weiler-Harwell,Nina
TI  - Discrimination against Atheists: a New Legal Hierarchy among Religious Beliefs
T2  - Law and Society
SN  - 9781593326753
AV  - KF4868.A84 W45 2011 
U1  - 342.7308/52342.730852 
PY  - 2011///
CY  - El Paso
PB  - LFB Scholarly Pub. LLC
KW  - Atheists
KW  - Legal status, laws, etc
KW  - United States
KW  - Religious discrimination
KW  - Law and legislation
KW  - LAW
KW  - Constitutional
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Public
KW  - fast
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-187) and index; 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
N2  - Weiler-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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