Ethics

Carpenter on Gay Marriage and Religious Liberty

By Ed Brayton

Dale Carpenter, the eminently reasonable law professor and advocate of same-sex marriage, has been having a fascinating exchange over the last few weeks with several other prominent law profs about same sex marriage and religious liberty. You can see all of the posts in that exchange on one page and the whole thing is really worth reading if you want a detailed, rigorous look at the issue.

The issue arose out of the situation in Connecticut, where legislators recently passed a bill to legalize same-sex marriage and a group of five law professors, including Doug Laycock of the University of Michigan, one of the foremost experts on church/state law in the nation and a top notch scholar that I've interviewed several times on various issues, wrote a letter to the legislators urging them to include a specific provision in the bill protecting religious liberty. They did so.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on May 12, 2009 (boomark / email).