The Supreme Court and Religious Liberty
October 18, 2010 · Features, Supreme Court, Magazine
Allen Hertzke is a political scientist at the University of Oklahoma specializing in religion and politics, religious freedom, and human rights. He contributed to The Weekly Standard on topics including religious liberty jurisprudence and the intersection of natural resources and genocide.
A POTENTIAL SHOWDOWN is looming in Washington that will affect the fate of a people and could define the politics of human rights for a generation. At issue: Should foreign oil companies doing business in Sudan be denied access to U.S. capital markets? Yes, asserts a coalition of religious and…