Religious Freedom, LGBT Rights, and the Prospects for Common Ground

2018-11-22 Law

Author : William N. Eskridge Jr
Release : 2018-11-22
Genre : Law
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Book Rating : 157/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Religious Freedom, LGBT Rights, and the Prospects for Common Ground written by William N. Eskridge Jr. This book was released on 2018-11-22. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LGBT, faith, and academic thought-leaders explore prospects for laws protecting each community's core interests and possible resolutions for culture-war conflicts.

Gay Rights Vs. Religious Liberty?

2020-06-02 Law

Author : Andrew Koppelman
Release : 2020-06-02
Genre : Law
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Download or read book Gay Rights Vs. Religious Liberty? written by Andrew Koppelman. This book was released on 2020-06-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Should religious people who conscientiously object to facilitating same-sex weddings, and who therefore decline to provide cakes, photography, or other services, be exempted from antidiscrimination laws? This issue has taken on an importance far beyond the tiny number who have made such claims. Gay rights advocates fear that exempting even a few religious dissenters would unleash a devastating wave of discrimination. Conservative Christians fear that the law will treat them like racists and drive them to the margins of American society. Both sides are mistaken. The answer lies, not in abstract principles, but in legislative compromise. This book clearly and empathetically engages with both sides of the debate. Koppelman explains the basis of antidiscrimination law, including the complex idea of dignitary harm. He shows why even those who do not regard religion as important or valid nonetheless have good reasons to support religious liberty, and why even those who regard religion as a value of overriding importance should nonetheless reject the extravagant power over nonbelievers that the Supreme Court has recently embraced. Koppelman also proposes a specific solution to the problem: that religious exemptions be granted only to the few businesses that are willing to announce their compunctions and bear the costs of doing so. His approach makes room for America's enormous variety of deeply held beliefs and ways of life. It can help reduce the toxic polarization of American politics.

Religious Freedom and Gay Rights

2016 Law

Author : Timothy Samuel Shah
Release : 2016
Genre : Law
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Book Rating : 608/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Religious Freedom and Gay Rights written by Timothy Samuel Shah. This book was released on 2016. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the United States and Europe, an increasing emphasis on equality has pitted rights claims against each other, raising profound philosophical, moral, legal, and political questions about the meaning and reach of religious liberty. Nowhere has this conflict been more salient than in the debate between claims of religious freedom, on one hand, and equal rights claims made on the behalf of members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community, on the other. As new rights for LGBT individuals have expanded in liberal democracies across the West, longstanding rights of religious freedom -- such as the rights of religious communities to adhere to their fundamental teachings, including protecting the rights of conscience; the rights of parents to impart their religious beliefs to their children; and the liberty to advance religiously-based moral arguments as a rationale for laws -- have suffered a corresponding decline. Timothy Samuel Shah, Thomas F. Farr, and Jack Friedman's volume, Religious Freedom and Gay Rights brings together some of the world's leading thinkers on religion, morality, politics, and law to analyze the emerging tensions between religious freedom and gay rights in three key geographic regions: the United States, the United Kingdom, and continental Europe. What implications will expanding regimes of equality rights for LGBT individuals have on religious freedom in these regions? What are the legal and moral frameworks that govern tensions between gay rights and religious freedom? How are these tensions illustrated in particular legal, political, and policy controversies? And what is the proper way to balance new claims of equality against existing claims for freedom of religious groups and individuals? Religious Freedom and Gay Rights offers several explorations of these questions.

Same-Sex Marriage and Religious Liberty

2023-06-14 Law

Author : Douglas Laycock
Release : 2023-06-14
Genre : Law
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Download or read book Same-Sex Marriage and Religious Liberty written by Douglas Laycock. This book was released on 2023-06-14. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Same-Sex Marriage and Religious Liberty explores the religious freedom implications of defining marriage to include same-sex couples. It represents the only comprehensive, scholarly appraisal to date of the church-state conflicts virtually certain to arise in many spheres of law as a result of the legal recognition of same-sex marriage.

Identity and the Case for Gay Rights

1999 Law

Author : David A. J. Richards
Release : 1999
Genre : Law
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Download or read book Identity and the Case for Gay Rights written by David A. J. Richards. This book was released on 1999. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1. THE RACIAL ANALOGY

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