Supreme Court Revisits Religious School Funding
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The connection between religious liberty cases and Second Amendment jurisprudence isn't obvious at first glance — but it's worth paying attention to.
"Courts that expand Free Exercise neutrality requirements tend to be the same courts receptive to Bruen's historical-tradition framework. The jurisprudential current flows in one direction."
This is the part most gun owners miss. The same judicial philosophy that says government can't selectively exclude religious institutions from neutral programs is the same one that looks hard at discriminatory licensing schemes and selective enforcement of firearms laws. The doctrinal current matters more than any single case.
"Gun owners have a stake in a Supreme Court that takes enumerated rights seriously across the board. When the Court strengthens the floor under religious liberty, it tends to strengthen the floor under the Second Amendment too."
Worth keeping in mind the next time someone tells you a religion case has nothing to do with your carry permit. Enumerated rights tend to rise and fall together — the Roberts Court has been pretty consistent on that front since Heller.
Have you ever seen a local licensing or permitting process that felt like it was designed to discourage rather than regulate — and if so, did anyone push back on it legally?
Read the full article in The Handbook → | By Steve Duskett
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