Reprinted in Religion and Equality Law 3-28 (Nelson Tebbe, ed., Ashgate, 2013).
Citation
Douglas Laycock, Formal, Substantive, and Disaggregated Neutrality Toward Religion, 39 DePaul Law Review, 993–1018 (1990).
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