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To: Concerned

I suppose that the "Sunday Blue Laws" in many states are government responses that support Christian beliefs. Forcing stores to remain closed on Sundays, restricting the sale of alcohol and other related restrictions have their roots in this country's Christian tradition. Indeed, making Christmas a national holiday certainly falls into that category. I understand that you are looking for specific court cases where someone's Christian beliefs led to a specific exception to a general rule. Perhaps allowing minors to drink the communion wine might be such an example.


5 posted on 10/19/2005 8:58:26 PM PDT by TruthShallSetYouFree (Abortion is to family planning what bankruptcy is to financial planning.)
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To: TruthShallSetYouFree
TSSYF WROTE: "I understand that you are looking for specific court cases where someone's Christian beliefs led to a specific exception to a general rule. Perhaps allowing minors to drink the communion wine might be such an example."

Yes, I am looking for that, but I am also looking for cases in which exceptions to Fed/State Laws were made for non-Christians due to their religious beliefs (even if not specifically-written doctrine of a major religion).

Using the example I mentioned earlier re: the Muslim woman who was initially denied a Drivers' License because she refused to remove her Burqa for a photo for a Drivers' License...Did she win or lose? Who won on appeal?

If she won at the Trial Court level and/or won on appeal, have there been other cases in which a Christian won or lost on some related religious-belief issue, e.g. the SSN representing part of the Mark-of-the-Beast?

9 posted on 10/19/2005 9:54:44 PM PDT by Concerned (My Motto: It's NEVER wrong to do what's RIGHT!!!)
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