Religious Freedom And Gay Rights

Author : William N. Eskridge Jr
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108470157
Total Pages : 567 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Religious Freedom, LGBT Rights, and the Prospects for Common Ground written by William N. Eskridge Jr and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-11-22 with total page 567 pages. 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.

Author : Timothy Samuel Shah
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190600608
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Religious Freedom and Gay Rights written by Timothy Samuel Shah and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 361 pages. 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. The eye of this conflict is the debate over claims of religious freedom, on one hand, and claims of equal rights for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people, on the other. As new rights for LGBT people have expanded in liberal democracies across the West, many advocates of religious freedom claim that their rights - such as 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 experienced a corresponding decline. In Religious Freedom and Gay Rights, editors Timothy Samuel Shah, Thomas F. Farr, and Jack Friedman bring 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 geographic regions: the United States, the United Kingdom, and continental Europe. The result is a thoughtful inquiry into the legal and moral frameworks that govern tensions between gay rights and religious freedom and the political controversies that these tensions have produced. -- from back cover.

Author : Andrew Koppelman
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0197500986
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gay Rights Vs. Religious Liberty? written by Andrew Koppelman and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020-06-02 with total page 215 pages. 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.

Author : Brian J. Grim
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139492411
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Price of Freedom Denied written by Brian J. Grim and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-12-06 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Price of Freedom Denied shows that, contrary to popular opinion, ensuring religious freedom for all reduces violent religious persecution and conflict. Others have suggested that restrictions on religion are necessary to maintain order or preserve a peaceful religious homogeneity. Brian J. Grim and Roger Finke show that restricting religious freedoms is associated with higher levels of violent persecution. Relying on a new source of coded data for nearly 200 countries and case studies of six countries, the book offers a global profile of religious freedom and religious persecution. Grim and Finke report that persecution is evident in all regions and is standard fare for many. They also find that religious freedoms are routinely denied and that government and the society at large serve to restrict these freedoms. They conclude that the price of freedom denied is high indeed.

Author : Douglas Laycock
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0742565645
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Same-Sex Marriage and Religious Liberty written by Douglas Laycock and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-06-14 with total page 344 pages. 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.

Author : David A. J. Richards
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226712095
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Identity and the Case for Gay Rights written by David A. J. Richards and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1. THE RACIAL ANALOGY

Author : David Lampo
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1442215739
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Fundamental Freedom written by David Lampo and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2012-06-08 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is an axiom of modern American politics that many Republicans and most conservatives are not only anti-gay but that they have capitulated to an anti-gay agenda formulated and pursued by the religious right for the past several decades. In A Fundamental Freedom, David Lampo makes the case that support for gay rights will provide long-term political benefits for the GOP and the conservative movement. He argues that an anti-gay agenda succinctly exposes the hypocrisy of those who talk of limited government and individual rights but ignore both when it comes to gay rights and other personal freedom issues. Indeed, it is the defenders of gay rights within Republican ranks who are keeping faith with core conservative principles. He also presents a variety of polling data that show that rank-and-file Republicans, including many Tea Party supporters, are far more supportive of gay rights than commonly presumed. Lampo’s call to embrace gay rights is sure to be hotly debated within the conservative movement.

Author : Winnifred Fallers Sullivan
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691180954
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Impossibility of Religious Freedom written by Winnifred Fallers Sullivan and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2018-04-24 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Constitution may guarantee it. But religious freedom in America is, in fact, impossible. So argues this timely and iconoclastic work by law and religion scholar Winnifred Sullivan. Sullivan uses as the backdrop for the book the trial of Warner vs. Boca Raton, a recent case concerning the laws that protect the free exercise of religion in America. The trial, for which the author served as an expert witness, concerned regulations banning certain memorials from a multiconfessional nondenominational cemetery in Boca Raton, Florida. The book portrays the unsuccessful struggle of Catholic, Protestant, and Jewish families in Boca Raton to preserve the practice of placing such religious artifacts as crosses and stars of David on the graves of the city-owned burial ground. Sullivan demonstrates how, during the course of the proceeding, citizens from all walks of life and religious backgrounds were harassed to define just what their religion is. She argues that their plight points up a shocking truth: religion cannot be coherently defined for the purposes of American law, because everyone has different definitions of what religion is. Indeed, while religious freedom as a political idea was arguably once a force for tolerance, it has now become a force for intolerance, she maintains. A clear-eyed look at the laws created to protect religious freedom, this vigorously argued book offers a new take on a right deemed by many to be necessary for a free democratic society. It will have broad appeal not only for religion scholars, but also for anyone interested in law and the Constitution. Featuring a new preface by the author, The Impossibility of Religious Freedom offers a new take on a right deemed by many to be necessary for a free democratic society.

Author : Timothy Samuel Shah
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780190600631
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Religious Freedom and Gay Rights written by Timothy Samuel Shah and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Nelson Tebbe
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674971434
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Religious Freedom in an Egalitarian Age written by Nelson Tebbe and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2017-01-01 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nelson Tebbe shows how a method called social coherence offers a way to resolve conflicts between advocates of religious freedom and proponents of equality law. Based on the way people reason through moral problems in everyday life, it can lead to workable solutions in a wide range of issues, including gay rights and women’s reproductive choice.