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A Masterpiece Of Simplicity: Toward A Yoderian Free Exercise Framework For Wedding-Vendor Cases, Austin Rogers
A Masterpiece Of Simplicity: Toward A Yoderian Free Exercise Framework For Wedding-Vendor Cases, Austin Rogers
Marquette Law Review
The Free Exercise Clause was enacted to protect diverse modes of religious
practice. Yet certain expressions of free exercise have entailed concomitant
harm to those outside the religious community, especially LGBTQ persons.
This trend has been acutely present in the recent onslaught of wedding-vendor
cases: LGBTQ persons seek the enforcement of statutorily protected rights,
while religious objectors seek refuge from state intrusion under constitutional
shelter. Consequently, wedding-vendor cases present an area of law in which
free-exercise jurisprudence and anti-discrimination jurisprudence have been
clashing.
However, despite the primacy of religious freedom and equal protection in
American jurisprudence, courts analyze wedding-vendor cases …