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Religious Exemptions, Third-Party Harms, And The False Analogy To Church Taxes, Christopher C. Lund
Religious Exemptions, Third-Party Harms, And The False Analogy To Church Taxes, Christopher C. Lund
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The First Queer Right, Scott Skinner-Thompson
The First Queer Right, Scott Skinner-Thompson
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Current legal disputes may lead one to believe that the greatest threat to LGBTQ rights is the First Amendment’s protections for speech, association, and religion, which are currently being mustered to challenge LGBTQ anti-discrimination protections. But underappreciated today is the role of free speech and free association in advancing the well-being of LGBTQ individuals, as explained in Professor Carlos Ball’s important new book, The First Amendment and LGBT Equality: A Contentious History. In many ways the First Amendment’s protections for free expression and association operated as what I label “the first queer right.”
Decades before the Supreme Court would …