[Info-area4] Obergefell and Beyond: Religious Liberty in the Age of Pluralism

[Nicola Vizioli]

Dipartimento di Giurisprudenza
Dipartimento di Studi aziendali e giuridici
Dottorato in Scienze giuridiche


Seminar

*Obergefell and Beyond:*
*Religious Liberty in the Age of Pluralism*


Prof. Frederick M. Gedicks
*(Brigham Young University)*


*9 dicembre 2015, ore 10,00*
Sala consiliare (IV piano) – Dipartimento di Giurisprudenza
Via Pier Andrea Mattioli, 10

*Obergefell v. Hodges* (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. 14th Amendment guarantees gays and
lesbians access to civil marriage, *Obergefell *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.

This lecture will defend the constitutional reasoning of *Obergefell* 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.

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
http://www.law2.byu.edu/faculty/profile_fancy.php?id=16
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