Session 12: Religious Liberty, Race & Sexuality (Full Session)

As with reproductive rights, an inordinate amount of “religious liberty” litigation over the past decade has focused on apparent conflicts between religious exercise and LGBTQ civil rights. In this session, learn why even theologically conservative Black Christians have been wary of these “religious liberty” lawsuits, and how people of faith-rather than fighting for a legal right to refuse and demean others-might instead seek a legal doctrine based on a mutual responsibility to care for others.
Speakers:
Dr. Keisha McKenzie, Director, McKenzie Consulting Group
Prof. Russell K. Robinson, Walter Perry Johnson Professor of Law, UC Berkeley School of Law
This is Session 12 of the Black Religious Liberty Curriculum (BRLC), a 12-part video series of conversations on the intersection of race, religion, and the law, featuring law professors, historians, theologians, religious studies scholars, activists, and preachers. The curriculum was created by Columbia Law School’s Law, Rights, and Religion Project with support from the Columbia Institute for Religion, Culture, and Public Life and the Proteus Fund’s Rights, Faith, and Democracy Collaborative. Video editing by ANKOSfilms.
Watch the rest of the curriculum series, at LawRightsReligion.org/our-work/brlc