TY - BOOK ID - 77920130 TI - Discrimination against Atheists PY - 2011 SN - 1593326750 9781593326753 9781593324414 1593324413 PB - El Paso LFB Scholarly Pub. LLC DB - UniCat KW - Atheists KW - Religious discrimination KW - Discrimination KW - Persons KW - Theists KW - Legal status, laws, etc. KW - Law and legislation UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77920130 AB - Weiler-Harwell examines continuing, legal, discrimination against atheists, as made clear in two cases: Boy Scouts of America v. Dale (2000) and Elk Grove Unified School District v. Newdow (2004). These rulings created a new, discriminatory level of distinction for believers versus non-believers that is ahistorical in light of previous Supreme Court precedent. Both cases created new standards for analyzing equality under the law for non-conformists such as atheists, shaping a new hierarchy of protected and unprotected forms of religious belief. The new judicial standards elevate monotheistic r ER -