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Chapter 7
Faith-Based Influences on Legislative Decision Making: Emerging Research and Opportunities
Guarantees citizens of the United States due process and equal protection of the laws. The due process clause has been the vehicle for applying to state action nearly all the guarantees in the first 10 amendments.
Published in Chapter:
Freedom of Religion and Marriage Equality
Copyright: © 2022 |Pages: 25
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-6807-1.ch007
Abstract
This chapter seeks to explain, as a descriptive matter, when, how, and why issues of religious freedom became part of the marriage equality debates. Using a historical context, the principle of religious freedom is examined, providing a provocative analysis of religious liberty cases and the ongoing role courts have played in this debate after the legalization of same-sex marriage in the United States through the 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges Supreme Court decision. A legal analysis is provided for Supreme Court cases.
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Chapter 4
Public Accommodations: Discrimination and Sexual Orientation
Guarantees citizens of the United States due process and equal protection of the laws. The Supreme Court expanded the concepts to any societal function involving state action to prevent discrimination against individuals on the grounds of race, sex, religion, or age.
Published in Chapter: Public Accommodations: Discrimination and Sexual Orientation; From: Social Jurisprudence in the Changing of Social Norms: Emerging Research and Opportunities
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Chapter 3
Religious Liberty
Guarantees citizens of the United States due process and equal protection of the laws. The due process clause has been the vehicle for applying nearly all the guarantees in the first 10 amendments to state action.
Published in Chapter: Religious Liberty; From: Social Jurisprudence in the Changing of Social Norms: Emerging Research and Opportunities
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Chapter 16
The Exploration of Diversity and Inclusion Programs Within Institutions of Higher Education
Adopted in 1868, this amendment to the U.S. Constitution granted citizenship along with equal civil and legal rights to African-Americans and emancipated slaves after the U.S. Civil War.
Published in Chapter: The Exploration of Diversity and Inclusion Programs Within Institutions of Higher Education; From: Handbook of Research on Practices for Advancing Diversity and Inclusion in Higher Education
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Chapter 8
Stop and Frisk
Addresses citizenship, equal protections, privileges and immunities and the like.
Published in Chapter: Stop and Frisk; From: Analyzing Black History From Slavery Through Racial Profiling by Police
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