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alcibiades_mystery

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2. Can we have moral feelings against singing in church?
Tue Dec 11, 2012, 09:31 AM
Dec 2012

If we can't have moral feelings against singing in church, how can we have them against murder?

So if a majority decides that we should have a law banning singing in church - and it's focused on that particular (morally repugnant to the majority) behavior, then that should be just fine with Justice Scalia. If somebody were to pose a religious objection, we could just modify the law to ban singing in any tax-exempt organizational building that is zoned / approved to hold more than 30 people at one time.

In this way, a law banning singing in church would be perfectly Constitutional by Scalia's own logic.

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