No contemporary political issue is more emotionally fraught: The LGBT lobby, enjoying its new political ascendancy, worries that religious conservatives wish to diminish the self-definition and harm the dignity of the wider LGBT community; meanwhile, religious conservatives, feeling beleaguered, find their deeply held beliefs marginalized and scorned, and stand accused of using religious liberty as a pretense for discrimination against sexual minorities.
Debating Religious Liberty and Discrimination is a new point-counterpoint volume coauthored by John Corvino (on one side) and Ryan T. Anderson and Sherif Girgis (on the other). The book explores the philosophical, historical, and policy dimensions of religious liberty, helping us to better understand what it is, why it matters, and how it ought to be protected. And, in turn, the book’s discussion of discrimination helps us to better understand what it is, when it’s unjust, and when it should be lawful. Policy analysts, ethicists, philosophers, and lawyers will all benefit from this book—as will anyone who wants to think more clearly about the pressing issues of the day.
