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- From: eck@panix.com (Mark Eckenwiler)
- Subject: Re: The Supreme Court Upholds Freedom of Speech
- Message-ID: <C1HB6G.G6F@panix.com>
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- References: <19564@smoke.brl.mil> <1993Jan22.192022.18378@Princeton.EDU> <14052@optilink.COM>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 20:49:28 GMT
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- In <14052@optilink.COM>, cramer@optilink.COM sez:
- >#
- ># Do the laws allow police to interfere with peyote use?
- >
- >Not if it is being used in conjunction with the rites of the Native
- >American Church. The recent bad Supreme Court decision was whether
- >an employer (in this case, a governmental agency) could fire someone
- >for peyote use as part of the NAC.
-
- That was _Smith I_, Clayton, sort of. (The Court actually held that
- the fired employees couldn't collect unemployment benefits, but never
- mind.) You evidently missed _Smith II_, in which the Court held that
- Oregon's criminal prohibition against peyote use passes constitutional
- muster, the free exercise clause notwithstanding.
-
- I direct your attention to 110 S. Ct. 1595.
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