This year is the 25th anniversary of a watershed case involving the conflict between religious liberty and lgbt rights. In Gay Rights Coalition v. Georgetown University, the DC Court of Appeals held that the DC Human Rights Law required the University to accord the benefits of recognition to gay student groups at the Law Center [...]
The health reform legislation enacted in 2010 requires workplace health insurance plans to include coverage for contraceptives. In a massive mobilization, more than 40 lawsuits have been filed in federal courts around the country challenging that provision. A number of plaintiffs in these suits are commercial, secular businesses, whose owners claim that they should be [...]
Naturally, everyone is debating the marriage cases, elaborating the arguments for or against standing and worrying (correctly I think) that the Court this term might move the civil rights ball forward on sexual orientation discrimination and backward on race discrimination. It seems likely to be an historic term for Equal Protection law. Next year – [...]
The Center for Ethics and Public Policy has announced a new project that will establish bipartisan “religious liberty” legislative caucuses in every state by the end of 2013, with the mission of blocking access to contraceptives, abortion and same-sex marriage. The campaign is starting with Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Idaho, Kansas, Missouri, New Hampshire, Oklahoma, and Tennessee. [...]
If we had to pick the world’s most active legal forum for LGBT rights, it would be the European Court of Human Rights. Following is a summary of a decision from last week, plus three other cases in the pipeline. The Court has also published an excellent summary of its decided and pending sexual orientation-related [...]
Apparently the very act of sleeping while gay is offensive. This year we’ve seen three discrimination cases involving bed and breakfast establishments, each in a different country: the UK, Canada, and the US. In February an English court of appeals upheld a gay couple’s victory against the owners of Chymorvah House in Cornwall. In Bull & [...]