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.
Contents:
- GAY MARRIAGE VS. RELIG FREEDOM: WHAT DO THE BIBLE SAY?
- WHAT YOU SHOULDN’T FET WHEN FOLLOWG BATTL BETWEEN RELIG EEDOM AND GAY RIGHTS
GAY MARRIAGE VS. RELIG FREEDOM: WHAT DO THE BIBLE SAY?
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.
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.
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WHAT YOU SHOULDN’T FET WHEN FOLLOWG BATTL BETWEEN RELIG EEDOM AND GAY RIGHTS
Conflicts between same-sex marriage and relig eedom will often volve some type of prevly adopted nondiscrimatn law or policy, and nondiscrimatn laws n impose burns on relig eedom even jurisdictns that do not legally regnize homosexual unns as marriag. Conflicts between relig eedom and nondiscrimatn laws n occur even jurisdictns that have not enacted laws nferrg official regnn on homosexual unns.
First, by creatg a prumptn of sexual unn, officially licensg homosexual relatnships n trigger nflicts wh relig and moral nscience that otherwise would not exist. [4] Laws that officially regnize homosexual relatnships—through same-sex marriage, civil unns, or domtic partnerships—make that kd of scenar more likely by creatg a public prumptn of sexual nduct. Although polil support for nondiscrimatn polici has almost, if not always, preced polil support for same-sex marriage, is likely that same-sex marriage laws will further entrench social, polil, and legal ias about homosexualy and same-sex marriage ways that would:.
G., Carlos Maza, Memo to NY Republins: Marriage Equaly Bill Don’t Threaten Relig Liberti, Equaly Matters (June 17, 2011), (argug that New York same-sex marriage bill do not threaten relig liberti bee, part, New York discrimatn law already impos certa burns sometim ced to illtrate how same-sex marriage threatens relig eedom); Billy Hallowell, Do NY’s New Gay Marriage Law Protect Those Who Oppose Same-Sex Unns? July 16, 2010) (unselor assertg that “relig beliefs do not prohib her om unselg persons who intify as homosexual—she has and would ntue to unsel such clients”); Complat at ¶ 9, Elane Photography v. 1155, 1182 (2005) (discsg ncern that “a gay rights victory on ernment regnn of same-sex marriage [uld] yield broar gay rights victori…as to private discrimatn”); id.