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:
- WHEN GAY RIGHTS CLASH WH RELIG FREEDOM
- GAY RIGHTS, RELIGN AND WHAT’S WRONG WH PRCIPL
- RELIG FREEDOM VS. GAY RIGHTS: CAN WE ALL GET ALONG?
- RELIG EEDOM VS. GAY RIGHTS. WHAT’S HAPPENG 10 STAT
WHEN GAY RIGHTS CLASH WH RELIG FREEDOM
* religious freedom vs gay rights *
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. 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.
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GAY RIGHTS, RELIGN AND WHAT’S WRONG WH PRCIPL
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?
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.
"Welch, who grew up a nservative, Christian home, said the foster re system also needs fai which gay, lbian or transgenr children would be wele. Democrats claimed her associatn wh groups that fight for relig exemptns om anti-discrimatn laws reprents a risk for gay Coney Barrett was tstee at private school wh anti-gay policiFor her part, Barrett scribed her fah as important, but irrelevant to her jurispnce.
RELIG FREEDOM VS. GAY RIGHTS: CAN WE ALL GET ALONG?
WASHINGTON – A unanimo Supreme Court led Thursday that a Catholic foster re agency Philalphia may turn away gay and lbian upl as clients, a victory for nservativ wh the potential to shift the balance between LGBTQ rights and the First Amendment's protectn of relig exercise.
LGBTQ advot had sred a signifint victory a 2015 cisn that legalized gay marriage and a se last year which the urt extend feral anti-discrimatn protectns to LGBTQ employe. Bostock:How a Supreme Court cisn is rhapg the battle over LGBTQ rightsCake:Supreme Court l for baker who refed to make same-sex uple's keFulton:Court's COVID-19 s stir battle between relign, same-sex upl On the other hand, a divid Supreme Court 2018 cricized Colorado's treatment of a baker's relig objectns to gay marriage 2012.
The jtic led that a state civil rights missn was hostile to him while allowg other bakers to refe to create k that meaned gays and same-sex marriag. It left unrolved whether other bakers, florists and photographers uld refe weddg servic to gay latt lg ntu a trend which the high urt has looked kdly on relign.
RELIG EEDOM VS. GAY RIGHTS. WHAT’S HAPPENG 10 STAT
Associate Jtice Brett Kavangh acknowledged at the time that both sis the nflict between relig rights and gay rights "warrant rpect. Support for LGBTQ rights has creased dramatilly sce passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, when same-sex marriage was unheard of and homosexualy was wily seen as immoral. I., an openly gay legislator and the lead Equaly Act sponsor the Hoe.
"It's only been a ltle over a that our own movement has e to unrstand homosexualy and genr inty different ways, " says Rabbi Jab Blumenthal, CEO of the Rabbil Assembly, an ternatnal associatn of rabbis the Conservative tradn.
"We basilly looked at the tradn and began to unrstand that the Jewish value of Kevod HaBeriyot, the digny of every dividual, is equal to or even tak precence over some of our olr tradn around attus toward homosexualy, " Blumenthal says.