<div dir="ltr"><div style="text-align:center">Dipartimento di Giurisprudenza</div><div style="text-align:center">Dipartimento di Studi aziendali e giuridici</div><div style="text-align:center">Dottorato in Scienze giuridiche</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div style="text-align:center">Seminar</div><div style="text-align:center"><br></div><div style="text-align:center"><b><font size="4">Obergefell and Beyond:</font></b></div><div style="text-align:center"><b><font size="4">Religious Liberty in the Age of Pluralism</font></b></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div style="text-align:center"><font size="4">Prof. Frederick M. Gedicks</font></div><div style="text-align:center"><font size="4"><i>(Brigham Young University)</i></font></div><div style="text-align:center"><br></div><div style="text-align:center"><br></div><div style="text-align:center"><b>9 dicembre 2015, ore 10,00</b></div><div style="text-align:center">Sala consiliare (IV piano) – Dipartimento di Giurisprudenza</div><div style="text-align:center">Via Pier Andrea Mattioli, 10</div><div><br></div><div><p><em>Obergefell v. Hodges</em> (2015) is one of the most consequential
and controversial decisions of the United States Supreme Court (USSCt)
in the last 50 years. By holding that the U.S. 14<sup>th</sup> Amendment guarantees gays and lesbians access to civil marriage, <em>Obergefell </em>raised
anew the persistent question of “judicial activism” and normalized a
relationship that theologically conservative religions have long
rejected as contrary to God’s will, the “natural” procreative order, and
millennia of social history. The United States must now decide whether
and to what extent conservative religion must accommodate itself to the
new legal reality of same-sex marriage.</p>
<p>This lecture will defend the constitutional reasoning of <em>Obergefell</em>
as within the Anglo-American tradition of constitutional “due process,”
and discuss the plausibility of claims that the constitutional
recognition of same-sex marriage threatens religious liberty in the
United States.</p>
<p>Frederick Mark Gedicks is Guy Anderson Chair and Professor of Law at
Brigham Young University Law School in Provo, Utah, USA. He teaches
jurisprudence, freedom of religion and constitutional law and writes on
freedom of religion and constitutional interpretation. Further details
at <a href="http://www.law2.byu.edu/faculty/profile_fancy.php?id=16">http://www.law2.byu.edu/faculty/profile_fancy.php?id=16</a></p></div></div>