Of cakes, websites and faith-based complaints: the fine art of crafting religion as speech

In 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis (2023), for the first time ever, the United States Supreme Court (USSC) explicitly recognised that business commercials now enjoy constitutional, First Amendment-based religious exemptions from providing services to same-sex customers. Not even in its much-maligned deci...

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Main Author: Corsalini, Matteo (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill, Nijhoff 2024
In: Religion and human rights
Year: 2024, Volume: 19, Issue: 1, Pages: 23-44
Further subjects:B Religious Free Speech
B “expressive” for-profit companies
B Free Speech Clause
B viewpoint discrimination
B Employment Division v. Smith
B 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis
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Summary:In 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis (2023), for the first time ever, the United States Supreme Court (USSC) explicitly recognised that business commercials now enjoy constitutional, First Amendment-based religious exemptions from providing services to same-sex customers. Not even in its much-maligned decision in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby (2014), which extended in an unprecedented way to for-profit companies statutory (but not constitutional) rights heretofore confined to churches, the Court went this far. But more than this, the decision in 303 Creative LLC also appears to be the symbol of something new: a definitive shift to the Free Speech Clause to the U.S. Constitution as an alternative tool to the Free Exercise Clause for protecting religious liberty. This article explains why this shift in doctrine has happened, why it matters, and how enhanced protections for business religious free speech fits with the agenda of conservative constitutional politics in America.
ISSN:1871-0328
Contains:Enthalten in: Religion and human rights
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/18710328-bja10040