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A Piece Of Cake Or Religious Expression: Masterpiece Cakeshop And The First Amendment, Richard F. Duncan
A Piece Of Cake Or Religious Expression: Masterpiece Cakeshop And The First Amendment, Richard F. Duncan
Nebraska College of Law: Faculty Publications
Sadly, religious liberty has become a matter of great controversy and division in our society. Although not so many years ago there was a nearly unanimous, bi-partisan consensus supporting the legal protection of religious liberty from laws substantially burdening the free exercise of religion, irreconcilable differences among us over contraception, abortion, sexuality, and the nature of marriage have made religious liberty a divisive partisan issue. Although most religious liberty cases concern religious minorities whose religiously-motivated conduct has been disregarded “by an insensitive majority,” a handful of cases involving Christian-owned businesses and ministries claiming a religious liberty right to refuse to …