TY - JOUR
AU - Baumgardner, Paul
AB - Your Land Is Holy to Me: The Constitutional Battle to Access Sacred Sites on Public Lands Paul Baumgardner “If Christians believed Jesus was crucified in South Dakota rather than Jerusalem, on land now owned by the government, Christians would be shocked if the government proposed to build a gambling casino on the site. But even this extreme hypothetical does not capture the claim of the Native Americans, because Christians do not believe particular geographical locations are sacred in the way that Native Americans do.” “If the First Amendment means anything, it means that the Govern- ment cannot take away the very ability of an individual to practice his religion at the only place that it can be practiced under the tenets of their religion.” Resources are oftentimes needed in order to act on our basic free- doms. Some of these resources may not be fungible; only specific resources will do. Although person X may be able to act on basic freedom Z with interchangeable resources, person Y requires a spe- cific, noninterchangeable resource to manifest the same freedom, freedom Z. In many cases, it is imperative that the state makes every effort to accommodate for person Y so that 
TI - Your Land Is Holy to Me: The Constitutional Battle to Access Sacred Sites on Public Lands
JO - Journal of Church and State
DO - 10.1093/jcs/csv102
DA - 2017-06-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/your-land-is-holy-to-me-the-constitutional-battle-to-access-sacred-VlitmunsVq
SP - 205
EP - 225
VL - 59
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve
ER -