Strange Bedfellows: How Religious Liberties Have Aligned with Nondiscrimination Policies and Can Again

Name: Strange Bedfellows: How Religious Liberties Have Aligned with Nondiscrimination Policies and Can Again
Start: 2026-10-21T17:30:00-04:00
Location: Vermont Humanities

Wednesday, October 21, 2026 · 5:30 PM
Vermont Humanities · 11 Loomis St, Montpelier, VT 05602 · Montpelier
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The First Amendment protects the free exercise of religion. The Fourteenth Amendment affords all persons equal protection under the law. What happens when those two rights collide, as happened in the in the Masterpiece Cake case? Must protections for religious liberties come at the expense of non-discrimination statutes? This presentation considers the unlikely coalition between advocates for the LGBTQ+ community and members of the Church of Latter Day Saints. In 2015, these political enemie