Church autonomy issues are at the forefront of contemporary debates in church\/state law.\u00a0 Such issues arise whenever the government seeks to impose a regulatory burden on a church or any religious organization.\u00a0 Often the regulatory burden comes in the form of generally applicable legislation that is facially neutral with respect to religion.\u00a0 The regulation may also take place through developments in the common law, such as claims sounding in tort, contract, trust, or real property.<\/p>\n
Some of the pressing topics in the area of church autonomy include ministerial exceptions to employment discrimination claims, IRS tax exempt status and political speech, unconstitutional conditions on public benefits, and bankruptcy litigation.\u00a0 An older and still important line of cases deals with intra-church disputes in which two factions litigate ownership of church property.\u00a0 Finally, there is the matter of tort claims against a church for clergy sexual abuse, a particularly difficult area that has arguably eroded the scope of church autonomy in other contexts.<\/p>\n
To explore these issues in detail, the Federalist Society has gathered some of the leading law and religion scholars in America.\u00a0 Among the topics addressed at the conference will be the theological and historical roots of church autonomy in both the Catholic and Protestant traditions, the constitutional basis for the church autonomy doctrine in the First Amendment, and particular applications of church autonomy in torts, employment, and other areas of law.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Here\u2019s more information about a conference, on religious freedom and church-autonomy, that will be of interest, I suspect, to many Vox Nova\u00a0readers.\u00a0 If you are in or near DC, please consider attending.\u00a0 The invited presenters make up a\u00a0rock-star list:\u00a0 John Garvey, Patrick McKinley Brennan, Kenneth Grasso, Carl H. Esbeck, Nicholas Wolterstorff, Thomas C. Berg, Ira […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2958,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
"The Things That Are Not Caesar's"<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Here's more information about a conference, on religious freedom and church-autonomy, that will be of interest, I suspect, to many Vox Nova\u00a0readers.\u00a0 If\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/voxnova\/2008\/02\/10\/the-things-that-are-not-caesars\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\""The Things That Are Not Caesar's"\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Here's more information about a conference, on religious freedom and church-autonomy, that will be of interest, I suspect, to many Vox Nova\u00a0readers.\u00a0 If\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/voxnova\/2008\/02\/10\/the-things-that-are-not-caesars\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Vox Nova\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2008-02-10T19:06:50+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"rgarnett\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"rgarnett\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/voxnova\/2008\/02\/10\/the-things-that-are-not-caesars\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/voxnova\/2008\/02\/10\/the-things-that-are-not-caesars\/\",\"name\":\"\\\"The Things That Are Not Caesar's\\\"\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/voxnova\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2008-02-10T19:06:50+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2008-02-10T19:06:50+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/voxnova\/#\/schema\/person\/fbc43ebcf737489692470ee72ab815b3\"},\"description\":\"Here's more information about a conference, on religious freedom and church-autonomy, that will be of interest, I suspect, to many Vox Nova\u00a0readers.\u00a0 If\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/voxnova\/2008\/02\/10\/the-things-that-are-not-caesars\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/voxnova\/2008\/02\/10\/the-things-that-are-not-caesars\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/voxnova\/2008\/02\/10\/the-things-that-are-not-caesars\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/voxnova\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"“The Things That Are Not Caesar’s”\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/voxnova\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/voxnova\/\",\"name\":\"Vox Nova\",\"description\":\"\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/voxnova\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/voxnova\/#\/schema\/person\/fbc43ebcf737489692470ee72ab815b3\",\"name\":\"rgarnett\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/voxnova\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7a4872886184983551635c06002c0fa9?s=96&d=identicon&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7a4872886184983551635c06002c0fa9?s=96&d=identicon&r=g\",\"caption\":\"rgarnett\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/voxnova\/author\/rgarnett\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"\"The Things That Are Not Caesar's\"","description":"Here's more information about a conference, on religious freedom and church-autonomy, that will be of interest, I suspect, to many Vox Nova\u00a0readers.\u00a0 If","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/voxnova\/2008\/02\/10\/the-things-that-are-not-caesars\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"\"The Things That Are Not Caesar's\"","og_description":"Here's more information about a conference, on religious freedom and church-autonomy, that will be of interest, I suspect, to many Vox Nova\u00a0readers.\u00a0 If","og_url":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/voxnova\/2008\/02\/10\/the-things-that-are-not-caesars\/","og_site_name":"Vox Nova","article_published_time":"2008-02-10T19:06:50+00:00","author":"rgarnett","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"rgarnett","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/voxnova\/2008\/02\/10\/the-things-that-are-not-caesars\/","url":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/voxnova\/2008\/02\/10\/the-things-that-are-not-caesars\/","name":"\"The Things That Are Not Caesar's\"","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/voxnova\/#website"},"datePublished":"2008-02-10T19:06:50+00:00","dateModified":"2008-02-10T19:06:50+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/voxnova\/#\/schema\/person\/fbc43ebcf737489692470ee72ab815b3"},"description":"Here's more information about a conference, on religious freedom and church-autonomy, that will be of interest, I suspect, to many Vox Nova\u00a0readers.\u00a0 If","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/voxnova\/2008\/02\/10\/the-things-that-are-not-caesars\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/voxnova\/2008\/02\/10\/the-things-that-are-not-caesars\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/voxnova\/2008\/02\/10\/the-things-that-are-not-caesars\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/voxnova\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"“The Things That Are Not Caesar’s”"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/voxnova\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/voxnova\/","name":"Vox Nova","description":"","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/voxnova\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/voxnova\/#\/schema\/person\/fbc43ebcf737489692470ee72ab815b3","name":"rgarnett","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/voxnova\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7a4872886184983551635c06002c0fa9?s=96&d=identicon&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7a4872886184983551635c06002c0fa9?s=96&d=identicon&r=g","caption":"rgarnett"},"url":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/voxnova\/author\/rgarnett\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/voxnova\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/voxnova\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/voxnova\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/voxnova\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2958"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/voxnova\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/voxnova\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1897\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/voxnova\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/voxnova\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/voxnova\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}