{"title":"What Christianity Loses When Conservative Christians Win at The Supreme Court","authors":"Russell K. Robinson","doi":"10.1086/719566","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"In Fulton v. City of Philadelphia, the SupremeCourt extended a recent trend of invalidating the application of antidiscrimination rules that protected LGBTQ people, stating that such applications violated the First Amendment’s FreeExerciseClause. In 2018, theCourt ruled for an evangelical baker who said that the application of a state antidiscrimination law to his refusal to bake a cake to celebrate the union of a gay couple violated his free exercise right. In these two recent cases, the Court expressed rhetorical support for LGBTQ people’s interest in equal treatment. The holding in each case, however, privileged the asserted free exercise right over the competing equality interest. At","PeriodicalId":46006,"journal":{"name":"Supreme Court Review","volume":"2021 1","pages":"185 - 224"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0000,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Supreme Court Review","FirstCategoryId":"90","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1086/719566","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"LAW","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
In Fulton v. City of Philadelphia, the SupremeCourt extended a recent trend of invalidating the application of antidiscrimination rules that protected LGBTQ people, stating that such applications violated the First Amendment’s FreeExerciseClause. In 2018, theCourt ruled for an evangelical baker who said that the application of a state antidiscrimination law to his refusal to bake a cake to celebrate the union of a gay couple violated his free exercise right. In these two recent cases, the Court expressed rhetorical support for LGBTQ people’s interest in equal treatment. The holding in each case, however, privileged the asserted free exercise right over the competing equality interest. At
在富尔顿诉费城市案(Fulton v. City of Philadelphia)中,最高法院延续了最近的一种趋势,即废除保护LGBTQ人群的反歧视规则的应用,称这种应用违反了第一修正案的自由行使条款。2018年,法院对一名福音派面包师做出了判决,他说,州反歧视法适用于他拒绝为一对同性恋夫妇烤蛋糕庆祝的行为侵犯了他的自由行使权。在最近的两起案件中,最高法院对LGBTQ群体要求平等待遇的诉求表示了口头上的支持。然而,在每一个案件的判决中,所主张的自由行使权利都优先于与之竞争的平等利益。在
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Since it first appeared in 1960, the Supreme Court Review has won acclaim for providing a sustained and authoritative survey of the implications of the Court"s most significant decisions. SCR is an in-depth annual critique of the Supreme Court and its work, keeping up on the forefront of the origins, reforms, and interpretations of American law. SCR is written by and for legal academics, judges, political scientists, journalists, historians, economists, policy planners, and sociologists.