Robin Fretwell Wilson is a professor of law at the University of Illinois and recently assisted the Utah Legislature to enact the Utah Compromise balancing LGBT rights and religious liberty. In 2008 she co-edited Same-Sex Marriage and Religious Liberty: Emerging Conflicts.
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Gay Marriage Debate Shouldn’t Be Winner-Take-All
A man holds up a Bible in front of the Supreme Court. Photo via Kevin Eckstrom / RNS
If the Supreme Court rules that there is a constitutional right to gay marriage, religious charities could be in for a big shock.
Religious people who believe in marriage as it has been for “millennia” (as Justice Kennedy put it) have lost business, lost jobs, and been sued by their own government. Those of us who support laws that protect both gay couples and religious people find these developments troubling. But if the Supreme Court rules that there is a constitutional right to gay marriage without reaffirming the rights of religious people, we will see many more situations like this.