Religious freedom and gay rights
Subtitle: emerging conflicts in the United States and Europe
By: edited by Timothy Samuel Shah, Thomas F. Farr, and Jack Friedman ; with an introduction by Matthew J. Franck and an afterword by Roger Trigg
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 347
ISBN-13: 9780190600600; 9780190600617
Subjects: Freedom of religion; Homosexuality; Religious aspects; Gay rights
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction:; title: Religious freedom, same-sex marriage, and the dignity of the human person  -- Matthew J. Franck -- Part I. The United Kingdom.; title: Equality and religious liberty : oppressing conscientious diversity in England  -- John Finnis; title: Gay rights versus religious rights  -- Stephen Law; title: At the door of the temple : religious freedom and new orthodoxy  -- Archbishop Philip Tartaglia -- Part II. The United States.; title: Wrongful discrimination? : religious freedom, pluralism, and equality  -- Richard W. Garnett; title: Civil marriage for same-sex couples, "moral disapproval, -- Linda C. McClain; title: The politics of accommodation : the American experience with same-sex marriage and religious freedom  -- Robin Fretwell Wilson; title: Die and let live? : the asymmetry of accommodation  -- Steven D. Smith -- Part III. Continental Europe.; title: Claims for homosexual equality and religious freedom in tension : moral and conceptual frameworks  -- Rocco Buttiglione; title: Same-sex partnership and religious exemptions in Italy : constitutional textualism versus European consensus  -- Andrea Pin; title: A Scandinavian perspective on homosexuality, equal rights, and freedom of religion -- Maarit Jänterä-Jareborg-- Afterword /-- Roger Trigg.