Gay rights vs. religious liberty? : the unnecessary conflict / Andrew Koppelman.
By: Koppelman, Andrew [author.]
.Series: Oxford scholarship online: Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 2020Description: 1 online resource (208 pages).Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780197501016 (ebook) :.Subject(s): Freedom of religion -- United States | Gay rights -- United States -- Religious aspectsAdditional Physical Form: Print version : 9780197500989DDC classification: 323.442 Online resources: Oxford scholarship online Summary: 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. This is not a matter of abstract principle, and none of the constitutional claims work. This is an appropriate occasion for legislative negotiation. This book is a systematic accounting of the interests that must be balanced in any decent compromise, in terms that both sides can recognise and appreciate.
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Also issued in print: 2020.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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. This is not a matter of abstract principle, and none of the constitutional claims work. This is an appropriate occasion for legislative negotiation. This book is a systematic accounting of the interests that must be balanced in any decent compromise, in terms that both sides can recognise and appreciate.
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