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.
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- GAY RIGHTS VS. RELIG LIBERTY? THE UNNECSARY CONFLICT: INTRODUCTN
- GAY RIGHTS VS. RELIG LIBERTY? THE UNNECSARY CONFLICT
GAY RIGHTS VS. RELIG LIBERTY? THE UNNECSARY CONFLICT: INTRODUCTN
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Bear Creek Bible Church, a Christian church, and Braidwood Management, a Christian-owned health re bs, did not wish to hire or reta employe who engaged gay or transgenr nduct. They sought to certify two class of platiffs: (1) every employer the Uned Stat that oppos homosexual or transgenr behavr for scere relig reasons (for example, relig employers), and (2) every employer the Uned Stat that oppos homosexual or transgenr behavr for relig or nonrelig reasons (all opposg employers).
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GAY RIGHTS VS. RELIG LIBERTY? THE UNNECSARY CONFLICT
Rellectg Chai Feldblum's 2006 words on relign's clash wh gay rights * religious liberty vs gay rights *
Koppelman is unqutnably a progrsive and believ that homosexualy and heterosexualy are morally equal, but unlike most progrsiv he believ that relign serv substantial protectn, so he favors balancg the terts of gay persons and people of fah. The purpose of notice is to spare gay persons unexpected huiatn om rejectn, even though he regniz that givg such notice may expose a bs to harassment. Some gay activists celebrate the power of ncel culture to silence opponents by harassment and timidatn.
In addn, some scholars have ma the se for lkg sexual and relig eedom or for makg legislative promis to avoid nflict between gay rights and relig liberty. Why do supporters of relig eedom and advot of gay rights often seem to talk past each other? Gay rights advot fear that exemptg even a few relig dissenters would unleash a vastatg wave of discrimatn.
Keywords: Gay rights, Relig Liberty, First Amendment, Constutnal Law.
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Tyler Deaton of the Amerin Uny Fund, who intifi as a gay nservative, tri to DEATON: We have to have laws on the books that n make explic when we're protected and when we're not.
And this is the hard thg for me to say as a gay guy - like, there are gog to be tim that there are relig anizatns that are gog to have the eedom to refe to serve me or employ me. A bakery wh fewer than 14 employe uld refe, on the basis of relig beliefs, to sign a ctom weddg ke for a gay uple.