{"id":1968,"date":"2025-07-03T18:06:58","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T22:06:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/gender-journal\/?page_id=1968"},"modified":"2025-07-03T18:06:58","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T22:06:58","slug":"religious-exemptions-to-anti-discrimination","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/gender-journal\/in-print\/volume-xxvi-issue-3-spring-2025\/religious-exemptions-to-anti-discrimination\/","title":{"rendered":"Religious Exemptions to Anti-Discrimination Law: Children\u2019s Rights in the Constitutional Calculus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Increasingly, religious actors in the public sphere\u2014whether in the provision of goods and services (<em>Masterpiece Cakeshop<\/em>) or in government contracting (<em>Fulton<\/em>)\u2014are simply invoking a person\u2019s sexual orientation as inconsistent with their religious tenets to benefit from a legal doctrine that shields them from the requirement that they offer an underlying rationale for LGBTQ discrimination. Over the past decade, we have filed amicus briefs in United States Supreme Court cases advancing children\u2019s constitutional rights, including briefs providing a check on these religious-based arguments when they adversely impact children\u2019s rights in the familial and child regulation contexts and equal access to the public resources. In our brief in <em>Fulton v. Philadelphia<\/em>, we highlighted how the categorical exemption courts have carved out for religious actors performing government duties gives legal effect to private biases at the expense of children and in contravention of their status as constitutional rights bearers. Our most recent amicus brief in <em>St. Mary Catholic Parish v. Roy<\/em> extends this argument into the education sphere which, like the foster care system at issue in <em>Fulton<\/em>, is a uniquely child-centered context and one in which children\u2019s constitutional rights have been historically acknowledged under state and federal law.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/gender-journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2025\/07\/Childrens-Rights-in-Constitutional-Calculus.pdf\">Keep Reading Religious Exemptions to Anti-Discrimination Law: Children\u2019s Rights in the Constitutional Calculus<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Increasingly, religious actors in the public sphere\u2014whether in the provision of goods and services (Masterpiece Cakeshop) or in government contracting (Fulton)\u2014are simply invoking a person\u2019s sexual orientation as inconsistent with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15106,"featured_media":0,"parent":1944,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"abstract.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":"","_tec_slr_enabled":"","_tec_slr_layout":""},"class_list":["post-1968","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"ticketed":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/gender-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/gender-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/gender-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/gender-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/gender-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1968"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/gender-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1971,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/gender-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1968\/revisions\/1971"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/gender-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/gender-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}