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blj-584	Block, Daniel	The Halachic Mandate for Gender Affirming Care: Examining the Potential Efficacy of Religious Liberty Claims made by Jewish Health Care Providers	2023	28	.pdf	application/pdf	8097	295	47	The existence of a secular exemption for individual doctors providing care to children with “medically verifiable conditions” parallels the exemptions ruled unconstitutional in Supreme Court religious liberty cases. History of Religious Liberty Throughout the first one hundred seventy-eight years of the Supreme Court’s existence, the Court refused to rule in favor of claimants petitioning against religiously inhibitory statutes.231 The Court reasoned that making a citizen’s “...religious beliefs superior to the law of the land…” would free individuals to establish their own law, erasing the need for government.232 Over time, however, the Court whittled away at its historic, and often discriminatory, approach to religious liberty in order to provide accommodations for certain religious minorities and establish the framework for the contemporary debate over religious exemption in the Constitution.233 The Court first granted a constitutional right to religious exemptions from otherwise generally applicable laws in Sherbert v. Verner (1963).	cache/blj-584.pdf	txt/blj-584.txt