Aftershocks of the 1983 Bob Jones Decision

Jim
Fundamentalism & Evangelicalism
Bob Jones University
SCOTUS
Bob Jones University v United States

The Supreme Court’s 1983 decision in Bob Jones University v United States cost the university its tax exemption. It may end up costing all biblical Christians considerably more. Samuel D. Brunson and David J. Herzig explore the possibilities in a lengthy paper for the Valparaiso University Legal Studies Research Paper Series.

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Bert Perry
Wed, 09/06/17 9:01 pm

….if Obergefell and same sex mirage is deemed a “fundamental” public policy, then a lot of protections enjoyed by churches disappear. There is a bitter irony here; Obergefell vs. Hodges is based on the idea that those who enacted the 14th Amendment into law, and who also enacted and enforced sodomy laws, would have come to the conclusion that same sex mirage was a fundamental right. And then that un-named fundamental right is going to, theoretically, overturn a fundamental right that is part of the 1st Amendment.

What a tangled web we weave….

Aspiring to be a stick in the mud.