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Washington Post: Civil rights or religious liberty — what’s on top?

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..."the conflict between religious liberty and nondiscrimination principles is profound," Kirsanow said the tension "appears most acute when religious liberty and sexual liberty conflict."


Are those rights of equal importance?


Kirsanow says no: "In our constitutional order, the first reason that religious liberty takes precedence over sexual liberty is that this is enshrined in our Constitution." He argues that the commission elevates "nondiscrimination laws, which with the exception of the Fourteenth Amendment are mere statutes, not constitutional provisions, over the provisions of the Constitution.


In practice, he added, this is "hostile to religion."


 

SEE: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2016/09/09/commission-says-religious-liberty-should-not-top-civil-rights/

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