The Powerful Headwinds Confronting Religious Freedom

Authors

Mark L. Movsesian, St. John's University School of LawFollow

Document Type

Essay

Publication Title

Law & Liberty

Publication Date

5-2-2018

Abstract

(Excerpt)

In the next few months, the Supreme Court will decide Masterpiece Cakeshop, one of a series of cases in which conservative Christians have sought exemptions from public-accommodation laws that ban discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. Like most of these disputes, the case involves a small business that declined, because of the owner’s Christian convictions, to perform a service in connection with a same-sex wedding—in this case, designing and baking a wedding cake. In most of these disputes, the lower courts have been unwilling to grant businesses religious exemptions from anti-discrimination rules.

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Originally published at: https://www.lawliberty.org/2018/05/02/masterpiece-cakeshop-religious-freedom-nones/