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Secular Humanism: Philosophy or Religion?

Loaded on May 15, 2001 published in Prison Legal News May, 2001, page 29
Filed under: Qualified Immunity, Religious Freedom, Denial of Religious Services, Religion Defined. Location: Washington.
The D.C. Circuit has held that federal prison officials were entitled to qualified immunity for refusing to recognize secular humanism as a religion.

Ben Kalka, a former federal prisoner, sought to form secular humanism groups to meet in prison chapels. At his last unit of incarceration, FCIJesup, the prison chaplain ...

 

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