Religion & Law

I just returned from a conference at BYU on the impact of same-sex marriage on public education. See http://www.law2.byu.edu/organizations/marriage_family/ The conference was organized by my good friend Lynn Wardle and was sponsored by the Marriage and Family Law Research Project at BYU Law School.  

The Marraige and Family Law Research Project is an admirable effort and it seems to me precisely the sort of initiative that religiously affiliated law schools ought to support. The Project has held a series of interesting conferences over the years (I have been involved in several). The conferences and follow-up law review publications have promoted serious thinking about marriage and related issues. The conferences typically include scholars with a range of views and as a result the resulting law review publications help to balance out the scholarly literature on these topics.     

Richard M.