D&C as Required Reading in Law School
Over on Prawfsblawg, the group blog for several law professors, Paul Horwitz has a post up on teaching the “Mormon” cases in a Law & Religion class at Notre Dame. Horwitz thinks they represent a unique opportunity to look at the relationship between religion and politics. Says Horwitz:
[A]dding this material opens up a far broader set of questions, many of which have broader resonance both for the question of Free Exercise accommodation and for the relationship between religion and the state in general.
Interestingly, Horwitz quotes Wildford Woodriff’s address regarding the Manifesto on polygamy, now contained in Official Declaration 1 of the Doctrine & Covenants. He says, “It seems to me that professors who teach law and religion ought to include the Revelation in their reading materials.”
