Wednesday, December 17, 2008
A puzzling new lawsuit . . .
Why is the Thomas More Law Center challenging the government's bailout of AIG? It seems that AIG offers Shariah-compliant business products. Aside from the sweeping implications of the suggestion that government support of AIG thereby violates the Establishment Clause, why exactly does government support of a business offering Shariah-complaint products, in the words of the complaint, send a message of "disfavor" and "hostility" toward Christianity and Judaism? As Eugene Volokh comments,
If someone were advancing this broad a view of the Establishment Clause in some other case -- or trying to narrow the argument by limiting it only to certain Christian denominations, as the Complaint is trying to narrow the argument by stressing the supposed vices of Islam -- I would think that the Thomas More Law Center would and should protest. It's too bad that it's backing this argument here.
https://mirrorofjustice.blogs.com/mirrorofjustice/2008/12/a-puzzling-new-lawsuit-.html