Meg Mott - Strange Bedfellows: How Religious Liberties Have Aligned with Nondiscrimination Policies and Can Again

Strange Bedfellows: How Religious Liberties Have Aligned with Nondiscrimination Policies and Can Again.

The First Amendment protects the free exercise of religion. The Fourteenth Amendment affords all persons equal protection under the law. What happens when those two rights collide, as happened in the Masterpiece Cake case? Must protections for religious liberties come at the expense of non-discrimination statutes?

This presentation considers the unlikely coalition between advocates for the LGBTQ community and members of the Church of Latter Day Saints. In 2015, these political enemies became practical allies, creating a law that required no one to compromise their deepest values. Could it be that religious and sexual minorities may have more in common than activists on both sides allow us to think? A Vermont Humanities event hosted by University of Vermont. Burlington, Alumni House, Silver Pavillion.