You Can't Say That! The Growing Threat to Civil Liberties from Antidiscrimination Laws by David E. Bernstein

About The Book

In a misguided attempt to eradicate every vestige of "discrimination" in society, activists and courts are using antidiscrimination laws to erode civil liberties such as free speech, the free exercise of religion, and freedom of association. Civil rights laws today are being applied in ways that threaten free speech on campus and in the workplace, the right of local community activists to speak out against government policies, the rights of private associations such as the Boy Scouts to determine their membership policies, and even the rights of individuals to choose their roommates.

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Resources from Chapter Ten: Religious Landlords: Antidiscrimination Law as a Weapon in the Culture Wars

MASSACHUSETTS COMMISSION AGAINST DISCRIMINATION

MCAD website: www.State.MA.us

HOUSING DISCRIMINATION RESOURCES
Religious Freedom Claims and Housing Discrimination: www.LambdaLegal.org
"Issues Affecting Single People": www.UnmarriedAmerica.org

DOMESTIC PARTNERSHIPS AND THE LAW
PDF of Thomas F. Coleman, "Key Court Cases Affecting the Rights of Domestic Partners": www.GNLTF.org

RELIGIOUS LIBERTY
ACLU on Religious Liberty: www.ACLU.org
Text of H.R. 1691 - Religious Liberty Protection Act of 1999: www.WhiteHouse.gov
National Fair Housing Alliance, Comments on the Religious Liberty Protection Act of 1999: www.ACLU.org

Footnote 352.
Swanner v. Anchorage Equal Rights CommÕn, 874 P.2d 274 (Alaska 1994): TouchNGo.com

Footnote 357.
Quoted in George Grant, "Trial and Error: The American Civil Liberties Union and Its Impact on Your Family" (undated): www.FreeBooks.com

Footnote 359.
Employment Division v. Smith, 494 U.S. 872 (1990).: www.Oyez.org and CaseLaw.lp.FindLaw.com

Footnote 363.
Jasniowski v. Rushing, 678 N.E.2d 743 (Ill. App.): www.State.IL.us

Footnote 364.
George C. Leef, "Housing Discrimination Laws and the Continuing Erosion of Property Rights," Freedom Daily, May 1999: www.FFF.org

Footnote 365.
Digest of McCready v. Hoffius, 586 N.W.2d 723 (Mich. 1998). : CourtOfAppeals.MIJUD.net

Footnote 367.
American Civil Liberties Union Statement on H.R. 1691 Religious Liberty Protection Act of 1999 Before the Subcommittee on the Constitution of the House Committee on the Judiciary Presented by Christopher E. Anders, Legislative Counsel May 12, 1999.: www.ACLU.org

Footnote 368.
Christopher E. Anders and Rose E. Saxe, "Effect of a Statutory Religious Freedom Strict Scrutiny Standard on the Enforcement of State and Local Civil Rights Law," Cardozo Law Review 21 (1999): www.JusticeTalking.org