Tuesday, May 26, 2015
Mark Rienzi on SSM, substantive due process, and religious liberty
At the Stanford Law Review, Mark Rienzi has clear and short paper ("Substantive Due Process as a Two-Way Street") in which he suggests an approach to the pending same-sex-marriage cases that, he suggests, will reduce the conflict and tension that the Court's Equal Protection / "animus" approach risks causing. He writes, among other things, "There is no inherent conflict between same-sex marriage and religious diversity. As with most other issues, our society remains capable of adopting a live-and-let-live approach in which same-sex marriage is recognized as a constitutional right, but religious dissenters are neither punished for their beliefs nor forced to violate them."
https://mirrorofjustice.blogs.com/mirrorofjustice/2015/05/mark-rienzi-on-ssm-substantive-due-process-and-religious-liberty.html