Huffington Post: As Mainstream Religion Embraces Marriage Equality, The 'Threat to Religious Liberty' Argument Crumbles

Jeffrey S. Trachtman has authored a blog post for the Huffington Post answering the principal remaining argument against marriage equality: that it constitutes a threat to religious freedom. Paralleling the points made in Kramer Levin’s recently filed Supreme Court brief on behalf of leading religious institutions and nearly 2000 individual clergy, Trachtman explained that many mainstream religions have moved to full acceptance of gay couples and support for their right to marry and that full recognition of the freedom to marry will neither affect the freedom of all religions to define marriage as they choose nor infringe religious freedom simply because religious institutions acting in the public sphere may be subject to ordinary enforcement of public accommodation laws. To the contrary, Trachtman argues, giving weight in civil law to a particular “religious” definition of marriage would unconstitutionally favor religious over non-religious views and also favor some religious views over others – including those of the many mainstream religious voices now supporting the freedom to marry.

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