October 09, 2009

Books

Incompatible Freedoms?

Same-Sex Marriage and Religious LibertyEmerging ConflictsEdited by Doug Laycock, Anthony Picarello Jr., and Robin Fretwell WilsonRowman & Littlefield, $34.95, 320 pp.

Robert K. Vischer

Reasonable people can disagree about the merits of same-sex marriage. Reasonable people should recognize, though, that the adoption of same-sex marriage will bring a wave of religious-liberty disputes. That is not necessarily a compelling reason to oppose same-sex marriage, but it is a reason to pay more attention to the religious-liberty implications of the emerging legal orde (...)


 

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