Events

Reconciling Conflicting Autonomy Rights: Same-Sex Marriage and Religious Liberty

Arguments about the need to accommodate religious objections to public policy mandates have been debated throughout American history. Religious individuals and institutions have sought exemptions from prohibitions against polygamy, civil rights regulations prohibiting discrimination on the basis of race, religion and gender in hiring and places of public accommodation, hospital policies requiring health care providers to perform abortions and sterilization's and a host of other regulatory requirements. That history provides a range of possible models that may be used to understand claims about the need to accommodate religious objectors opposed to same-sex marriages.

Thursday, April 15, 2010 - 7:15 pm
Sacramento Municipal Utility District Headquarters
6201 S Street
Sacramento, CA 95817

Admission is free. A question and answer session will follow.

In his talk, Professor Alan Brownstein of the UC Davis School of Law and the ACLU of Northern California Legal Committee will critically evaluate alternative frameworks for thinking about the current debate and describe what he believes to be the most appropriate analytic model for resolving these issues.