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RELIG FREEDOM VS. GAY RIGHTS: CAN WE ALL GET ALONG?
This volume brgs together some of the world's leadg thkers on relign, moraly, polics, and law to analyze the emergg tensns between relig eedom and gay rights three key geographic regns: the Uned Stat, the Uned Kgdom, and ntental Europe. * freedom of religion vs gay rights *
Relig Freedom and Gay Rights, eded by Timothy Shah, Thomas Farr, and Jack Friedman, brgs together some of the world's leadg thkers on relign, moraly, polics, and law to analyze the emergg tensns between relig eedom and gay rights three key geographic regns: the Uned Stat, the Uned Kgdom, and ntental Europe. Supreme Court Sis Wh Relig Freedom In High Profile LGBTQ Rights Case NPR's Ari Shapiro talks wh Currey Cook of Lambda Legal, the gay rights group that wrote a iend-of-the-urt brief the LGBTQ rights se which the Supreme Court sid wh relig eedom. This year, the jtic approved taxpayer support for relig tn some circumstanc and let relig employers sistep job discrimatn laws and health surance verage for urt refed to let employers discrimate agast LGBTQ workers a 6-3 lg June, but even then Associate Jtice Neil Gorsuch reerated the jtic' rpect for relig Court grants feral job protectns to gay, lbian, transgenr workers"We are also eply ncerned wh prervg the promise of the ee exercise of relign enshred our Constutn, " he wrote.
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* freedom of religion vs gay rights *
Although Jtice Gorsuch’s battle plan did not clu a eedom of associatn challenge, Braidwood neverthels argued that s eedom of associatn would be vlated if forced to hire or reta dividuals who engage homosexual or transgenr nduct. “For the same reasons that Defendants do not have a pellg state tert forcg an anizatn to reta, as a sutmaster, a member who is a gay rights activist, Defendants do not have a pellg tert forcg Relig Bs – Type Employers to hire and reta dividuals that engage nduct that is ntrary to the employers’ exprsive terts.