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Jay Wexler is Professor at Boston University School of Law. He's also a humorist, short story writer, and novelist. A one-time clerk to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and former lawyer at the US Department of Justice, he has written for National Geographic, The Boston Globe, McSweeney's Internet afficher plus Tendency, Salon, and many other outlets. His books include When God Isn't Green (2016) and Holy Hullabaloos (2009). afficher moins

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Note: I accessed a digital review copy of this book through Edelweiss.
 
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fernandie | 10 autres critiques | Sep 15, 2022 |
Outdated by now (the Supreme Court has gone a lot further in mandating deference to religion), but recounts key cases and in many instances talks to people involved in them. Wexler has a very strong, jokey voice that you may react strongly to one way or another, but does a good job communicating what the doctrines were like at the time.
 
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rivkat | 3 autres critiques | Apr 29, 2022 |
An easy to read discussion of Establishment Clause cases, and ways in which minority religions have been using the opportunities opened by pro-Christian decisions to leave their own mark on the public square. The author visited with some of the quirky religions (and non-religions) that have begun putting up their own displays and handing out their own material in the public square next to the ubiquitous Christians. He proposes this "cacophony" as he calls it to the domination of the public forum by one religion only, and urges us to look at this as opportunity. He does detail many cases in which this didn't work out. Some of these cases actually had the best outcome - removing religion from the public offices and schools - but some of them had the effect of just sort of silencing the other voices while giving lip service to inclusion. The violence and grief many have suffered for their efforts was downplayed a bit too much for me; I think with his thesis, that the noisy public square is a good thing, is ill served by these cases, and they deserve a better airing. Also no discussion of how much trouble can be stirred up by all this extraneous activity creating distractions from the work that needs to be done in these public institutions, and that the mere act of balancing so many competing claims cuts into the ability of the governmental offices to function. How much I don't know, since I have not seen any studies. Overall, a bit superficial in places, but a worthy book.… (plus d'informations)
 
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Devil_llama | 1 autre critique | Nov 18, 2020 |
Not as funny as Assassination Vacation, a book that HH draws comparisons to, but Wexler is really smart, really opinionated, and really invested in getting people to understand church-state law better.
 
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wearyhobo | 3 autres critiques | Jun 22, 2020 |

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