Joshua Davis Bland v. Kathleen Allison, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, et al.
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Does a state prison have the right to void an inmate's religious practice?
QUESTIONS PRESENTED | : 1) Does a state prison have the right to void an inmate's religious practice if the state prison refuses to recognize the inmate's religion, and claim it has some "compelling interest" in the denial of the inmate's right to practice his religion-in a least restrictive manner in accordance with the R-L.U.I.P.A.? 2) Does a state prison have a "compelling interest" to blanket ban all pornographic materials when the same is sold on the open market legally in the | state, would this not be de facto censorship? | 3) What "compelling interest" could a state prison have in the denial of an’; inmate's religious practice? 4) If holy books and religious literature is allowed for Muslims and Jews and Christains, then pornographic materials should be allowed for Erosians, wouldn't the Court think? 5) Under the R.L.U.I.P.A.,the state prison must abide all federal laws pursuant to the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution to which it is the states that are the parties to it, and it is the law that says equal protection of the law extends to people, not to interests, wherefore, would it be unlawful. for the state prison to deny an inmate his right to practice his religion in a least restrictive means? |