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Professor Horwitz Urges Alabama Voters To Vote ‘No’ On Amendment One

October 20, 2014

Professor Paul Horwitz recently wrote in The Tuscaloosa News that Alabama voters should vote “No” on Amendment One on Nov. 4.

The amendment is redundant, comes with a set of costs, and is based on religious hostility, he said.

“Earlier versions of this legislation were clearly targeted specifically at Islamic law, although their proponents had no examples of any Alabama court enforcing Islamic law at all, let alone using it to violate anyone’s rights,” wrote the Gordon Rosen Professor of Law and author of First Amendment Institutions. “Amendment One and its predecessors are copies of model legislation drafted by anti-Islamic activists from outside Alabama.”

For more, read  “Amendment One is useless, costly and wrong.”


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