Religious freedom, LGBT rights, and the prospects for common ground
LGBT, faith, and academic thought-leaders explore prospects for laws protecting each community's core interests and possible resolutions for culture-war conflicts
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York
Cambridge University Press
2018
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| In: | Year: 2018 |
| Reviews: | [Rezension von: Religious freedom, LGBT rights, and the prospects for common ground] (2020) (Anderson, Matthew Lee, 1982 -)
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
USA
/ Freedom of religion
/ Constitutional right
/ LGBT
/ Sexual behavior
/ Discrimination
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Sexual minorities--Civil rights--United States
B Freedom of religion--United States B Civil rights--Religious aspects B Discrimination--Religious aspects B Conference program |
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| Summary: | LGBT, faith, and academic thought-leaders explore prospects for laws protecting each community's core interests and possible resolutions for culture-war conflicts Cover -- Half-title -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Contents -- Contributors -- Editors -- Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Prospects for Common Ground: Introduction -- Part I The Search for Common Ground: Framing the Dialogue -- 2 Choosing among Non-Negotiated Surrender, Negotiated Protection of Liberty and Equality, or Learning and Earning Empathy -- 3 Liberty and Justice for All -- I The Interests at Stake -- II Balancing Competing Harms -- III Conclusion -- 4 Belief and Belonging: Reconciling Legal Protections for Religious Liberty and LGBT Youth -- I The Untold Costs to LGBT Youth -- II Pitting Faith against LGBT Identity -- III The Message to LGBT Youth: Self-Exile -- IV A Page from My Life -- V Change from Within -- VI Change from Outside -- A Religious Schools -- B Conversion Therapy -- VII Conclusion -- 5 Religious Freedom, Civil Rights, and Sexuality: A Christian Ethics Perspective -- I Ethical Commitments and Actions Flow out of a Larger Narrative or Worldview about God, Humanity, and the World -- II The Primary Locus of Christian Beliefs and Ethics Is in the Christian Community, Not in the Larger Society -- III Human Rights Flow from a Human Dignity Shared by All Humanity -- IV Conclusion -- Part II Guiding Principles for Mediating Conflicts -- 6 Religious Accommodation, and Its Limits, in a Pluralist Society -- I How Religious Liberty Claims Differ in Form, and Why It Matters -- II Accommodation and Third-Party Harm: The Law -- III Pluralism and the Question of Conscience -- IV Conclusion -- 7 ''The Devil Is in the Details'': On the Central Importance of Distinguishing the Truly Public from the Truly Private in Reconciling Equality and Religious Liberty -- I The Substantial Shortcomings of the Belief/Conduct, Third-Party Harm, and Proportionality Analysis Frameworks II Toward a More Workable Framework Based on the Public/Private Distinction -- III Some Preliminary Thoughts on Deploying the Public/Private Distinction to Resolve Conflicts between Equality and Religious Liberty -- IV Conclusion -- 8 Mutual Tolerance and Sensible Exemptions -- I Mutual Tolerance -- II The Limits of Ordinary Reason -- III Abortion -- IV Same-Sex Marriage -- V Conclusion -- 9 The Joys of Mutual Contempt -- I Why Antidiscrimination Law? -- II Moral Equivalencies? -- III US Civil Rights Commission: Block That Metaphor -- IV Conclusion -- 10 From Conflict to Coexistence: The Catholic Response to the LGBT Community -- I Official Catholic Response -- II Theologians -- III The Laity -- A The Dignity of the Human Person Within Community -- B Option for the Poor and Vulnerable -- C The Rights of Workers -- IV Much-Needed Conversion -- A Conversion of the Hierarchy -- B Conversion of the Laity -- V Worldviews -- VI Coexistence Requires Dialogue -- 11 Implied-Consent Religious Institutionalism: Applications and Limits -- I How Implied Consent Works -- II Implications of Implied Consent -- A Granting Implied Consent: Membership -- B Withdrawing Implied Consent: Exit -- C Content of Implied Consent: Process, Not Substance -- D Limits on Implied Consent: Strict Scrutiny -- III Conclusion -- Part III The Demands of Faith: Perspectives from Select Faith Traditions -- 12 Christian Identity and Religious Liberty -- I Faith, Not Politics -- II Faith and Fears -- III Maintaining Faith in Public Places -- IV Evangelicals in a Pluralistic Society -- 13 The ''Demands'' of Faith -- I Imperatives That Arise from Faith Itself -- II Societal Conditions That Foster Religious Expression -- III Governmental Protection of God-Given Freedoms -- IV Responsibilities of People of Faith and Their Institutions toward Society and the State 14 Toward Collaboration: A Perspective from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints -- I Moral Agency -- II Right of Association and Gathering versus Invidious Discrimination -- III The Challenge of Shared Space -- IV Pluralism and the Mormon Understanding of Fairness for All -- 15 Conscience Claims in Islamic Law: A Case Study -- I The Transformation of Maryam Mulk-Ara -- A The First Petition: 1970s Pre-Revolutionary Iran -- B The Second Petition: 1980s Post-Revolutionary Iran -- II An Early Islamic Law of Transsexuality? -- A Different-Sex Affinity: Before Transsexuality -- B Same-Sex Relations: Before Homosexuality -- III A Modern Islamic Law of Transsexuality -- A The Fatwa's Making: Juristic Updating and Internal Critique -- B The Fatwa's Limitations: Legal Authority, Bureaucracy, and Cultural Bias -- IV Conclusion -- 16 Should an Amish Baker Sell a Cake for a Same-Sex Wedding?: A Letter on Toleration of LGBT Rights from Anabaptists to Evangelicals -- I The Bare-Bones Toleration of the Dutch Mennonites -- II Anabaptist Yieldedness in Wisconsin v. Yoder -- III A Concluding Letter to Christians -- Part IV Testing the Civil Rights Analogy -- 17 The Rhetoric of Bigotry and Conscience in Battles over ''Religious Liberty v. LGBT Rights'' -- I The ''Brush of Bigotry'' -- II The US Supreme Court's Rhetoric -- III Branding as a Bigot or Learning from the Past? -- A The Civil Rights Commission's Peaceful Coexistence Report -- 1 Analogies to the Past -- 2 Flipping the Charges of Bigotry and Intolerance -- B Masterpiece Cakeshop -- 1 Arguments by Phillips and His Amici -- a Showing ''Hostility'' toward Phillips's Religion -- b Merchants of ''Good Conscience'' Are Not Bigots -- c Rejecting Analogies to Past Civil Rights Struggles -- d Downplaying the Role of Religion in Past Defenses of Racism and Discrimination -- e The Demands of Tolerance 2 Arguments by Respondents and Their Amici -- a Do Amici Brand Phillips as a Bigot? -- b Learning from the Past -- IV Conclusion -- 18 Against ''Civil Rights'' Simplism: How Not to Accommodate Competing Legal Commitments -- I The Paradoxically Impoverished Condition of Contemporary Public Discourse -- II Ascribing Animus -- III ''Civil Rights'' as an Instrument of Equivocation -- IV Conclusion -- 19 Heterosexuals Only: Signs of the Times? -- I Exemptions Discriminate, Shame, and Stigmatize -- II Exemptions Undermine and Erode Nondiscrimination Laws -- III Exemptions Question Our Commitment to LGBT Equality -- IV Conclusion -- 20 Conscience v. Access and the Morality of Human Rights, with Particular Reference to Same-Sex Marriage -- I The Morality of Human Rights: Herein of Moral Freedom and Moral Equality -- A Moral Freedom -- B Moral Equality -- II Moral Freedom, Moral Equality, and Interracial Marriage -- III Moral Freedom, Moral Equality, and Same-Sex Marriage -- IV Conclusion -- 21 On the Uses of Anti-Christian Identity Politics -- I Article XI and Anti-Christian Identity Politics -- II Abandoning Identity Politics? -- III Anti-Christian American Identity Politics as a Symptom of Cultural Dissolution -- IV Conclusion -- Part V Strings Attached?: Government Support of Religion and Religious Institutions -- 22 Marriage Equality, Traditionalist Churches, and Tax Exemptions -- I Short History of Challenges Posed by Marriage Equality to Religious Institutions -- II Bob Jones: No Threat to Churches Hewing to Traditional Marriage -- A Agency Practice and the Internal Revenue Code -- B Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993 -- C Free Exercise Clause -- III Democratic Pluralism, Social Capital Theory, and Religious Free Exercise -- IV Conclusion -- 23 Why Money Matters: LGBT Rights and Religious Freedom I Constitutional History Teaches Us That Money Matters -- II Laws and Policies Recognize That Money Matters -- III Practical Experience Shows Us That Money Matters -- IV Conclusion -- 24 Freedom to Serve: Religious Organizational Freedom, LGBT Rights, and the Common Good -- I How Do Religion's Societal Contributions Relate to Religious Freedom? -- A Social Policy -- B Religious-Freedom Rights -- 1 Motivation -- 2 Justifications -- II Same-Sex MarriageRights and the Common Good -- III Religious Voluntarism and the Common Good: Evidence -- A Benefits to Religious Individuals -- B Social Contributions of Religiously Based Service Organizations -- 1 Magnitude -- 2 Distinctiveness -- 3 Importance of Religious Identity -- IV Answers to Objections -- A What Good Comes from Organizations Whose Practices Negatively Affect Others? -- B Does Religious Organizations' Importance Call for Strict Regulation? -- V The Common Good and the Scope of Protection -- VI Conclusion -- Part VI Educational Institutions in the Age of Same-Sex Marriage -- 25 Two Paths: Finding a Way Forward at Covenantal Universities -- I The Spirituality of College Students -- II The Role of Covenantal Universities -- III The Logic of Faith-Based Policies and Practices -- IV Theological Commitments and Secular Society -- V Preserving Pluralism in Higher Education -- VI Conclusion -- 26 God and Man and Religious Exemptions in the Modern University -- I Exemptions and Their Beneficiaries -- A The Exemptions and Their Limits -- B The Balance of Interests -- II Which Universities Should Qualify? -- III Conclusion -- Part VII The Challenges of Public Accommodations -- 27 Challenges to True Fairness for All: How SOGI Laws Are Unlike Civil Liberties and Other Nondiscrimination Laws and How to Craft Better Policy and Get Nondiscrimination Laws Right -- I Analogies to Race and Sex A Definitions of Key Terms |
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| Physical Description: | 1 Online-Ressource (568 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9781108692434 |
