Gay Rights, Relign, and Givg Peace a Chance

Contents:

• WE CAN FD COMMON GROUND ON GAY RIGHTS AND RELIG LIBERTY
• THE ORTHODOX CHURCH’S ROLE RSIA’S ANTI-GAY LAWS
• SUPREME COURT BACKS CATHOLIC AGENCY CASE ON GAY RIGHTS AND FOSTER CARE

WE CAN FD COMMON GROUND ON GAY RIGHTS AND RELIG LIBERTY

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?

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.

THE ORTHODOX CHURCH’S ROLE RSIA’S ANTI-GAY LAWS

But a bakery wh 15 or more employe uld not turn a gay uple away.

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.

SUPREME COURT BACKS CATHOLIC AGENCY CASE ON GAY RIGHTS AND FOSTER CARE

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.

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: The Supreme Court today led a se that pted relig eedom agast gay rights, and the jtic unanimoly sid wh the relig group, Catholic Social Servic. Currey Cook is wh the gay rights group Lambda Legal, which wrote a iend-of-the-urt brief the se. But that one, the jtic favored relig eedom over gay rights, sidg wh a baker who refed to make a ke for a same-sex uple.

Legal system right now is generally valug relig eedom over gay rights. And there are dozens of other agenci Philalphia that gay parents n work wh. It suggts that when the broar qutn of whether relig groups have the right to discrimate do e before the jtic, they will likely uphold relig liberty over gay rights.

There have been no major victori on this issue at the Supreme Court sce the 2018 retirement of Jtice Anthony Kennedy – the thor of every major gay rights lg recent s cludg Obergefell v.

But what the lg did not do is hand down a five answer to the qutn that the s are movg toward: Should gay rights or relig rights yield when the two are irrencilable nflict? They flag that men who have sex wh men have been publicly ned unr sharia law  Indonia; that ISIS  Syria targets homosexualy; and that the Maldiv, Mrania, and Sdi Arabia crimalize . In Nigeria and Rsia, laws agast promotg homosexualy public make difficult for LGBT fah muni to operate.

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. More:Supreme Court to ci if foster re agenci n snub gay, lbian upl due to relig objectnsThe foster re agency sued, but two lower feral urts refed to block the cy's actn. Advot for foster children also note that a large number of children needg foster re are gay, lbian, bisexual or transgenr, makg illogil to exclu LGBTQ upl om the program.