Debating Religious Liberty and Discrimination

John Corvino, Sherif Girgis, Ryan T. Anderson (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

352 Seiten

2017
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-060307-6 (ISBN)

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This book explores emerging conflicts about religious liberty and discrimination. In point-counterpoint format, it brings together longtime LGBT rights advocate John Corvino and rising conservative thinkers Ryan T. Anderson and Sherif Girgis to debate Religious Freedom Restoration Acts (RFRAs), anti-discrimination law, and age-old questions about identity, morality, and society.

Virtually everyone supports religious liberty, and virtually everyone opposes discrimination. But how do we handle the hard questions that arise when exercises of religious liberty seem to discriminate unjustly? How do we promote the common good while respecting conscience in a diverse society?

This point-counterpoint book brings together leading voices in the culture wars to debate such questions: John Corvino, a longtime LGBT-rights advocate, opposite Ryan T. Anderson and Sherif Girgis, prominent young social conservatives.

Many such questions have arisen in response to same-sex marriage: How should we treat county clerks who do not wish to authorize such marriages, for example; or bakers, florists, and photographers who do not wish to provide same-sex wedding services? But the conflicts extend well beyond the LGBT rights arena. How should we treat hospitals, schools, and adoption agencies that can't in conscience follow antidiscrimination laws, healthcare mandates, and other regulations? Should corporations ever get exemptions? Should public officials?

Should we keep controversial laws like the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, or pass new ones like the First Amendment Defense Act? Should the law give religion and conscience special protection at all, and if so, why? What counts as discrimination, and when is it unjust? What kinds of material and dignitary harms should the law try to fightand what is dignitary harm, anyway?

Beyond the law, how should we treat religious beliefs and practices we find mistaken or even oppressive? Should we tolerate them or actively discourage them?

In point-counterpoint format, Corvino, Anderson and Girgis explore these questions and more. Although their differences run deep, they tackle them with civility, clarity, and flair. Their debate is an essential contribution to contemporary discussions about why religious liberty matters and what respecting it requires.

John Corvino is Chair of the Philosophy Department at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. He is the co-author (with Maggie Gallagher) of Debating Same-Sex Marriage (June 2012) and the author of What's Wrong with Homosexuality? (January 2013), both from Oxford University Press. Ryan T. Anderson is the William E. Simon Senior Research Fellow in American Principles and Public Policy at The Heritage Foundation, and the founder and editor of Public Discourse, the online journal of the Witherspoon Institute of Princeton, New Jersey. Sherif Girgis is a political theorist and a leading academic critic of same-sex marriage.

Section I. Introduction: New Challenges, Old Questions
Ryan T. Anderson, John Corvino, and Sherif Girgis

Section II. Religious Liberty, Not Religious Privilege
John Corvino

1. Religious Liberty and Religious Privilege: Some Context
2. The Trouble with Today's Religious Exemptions
3. Why Religious Exemptions?
4. Discrimination and the Law
5. Bigotry and Social Pressure
6. Conclusion

Section III. Against the New Puritanism: Empowering All, Encumbering None
Ryan T. Anderson and Sherif Girgis

1. Public Policy after Same-Sex Marriage
2. Ethics and Politics
3. Religion and Conscience, Civil Society and Pluralism
4. Our First Freedom at Work
5. Dignity, Discrimination, and Coercion
6. Antidiscrimination Laws
7. Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Laws: A Challenge to Supporters

Section IV. Reply to Anderson and Girgis
John Corvino

1. Moral and Religious Integrity
2. Limited Government versus Exemptions from Laws
3. Sexual-Orientation and Gender-Identity Discrimination

Section V. Reply to Corvino
Ryan T. Anderson and Sherif Girgis

1. Legislation and Exemptions
2. Discrimination
3. Integrity

Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the Authors

Erscheinungsdatum	20.05.2017
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	206 x 137 mm
Gewicht	476 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
ISBN-10	0-19-060307-0 / 0190603070
ISBN-13	978-0-19-060307-6 / 9780190603076
Zustand	Neuware