{"id":10654,"date":"2018-04-17T22:51:48","date_gmt":"2018-04-17T22:51:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/?p=10654"},"modified":"2018-07-28T08:42:30","modified_gmt":"2018-07-28T08:42:30","slug":"2018-05-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/2018-05-20\/","title":{"rendered":"Mini Law School &#8211; Religious Free Exercise In A Secular Society"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>Leland Chan<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>May 20, 2018<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Religious believers are becoming more convinced that their constitutional rights are being violated &#8211; from the barring of public prayers and religious monuments, \u201cgagging\u201d political speech in churches, to \u201ccoerced\u201d acceptance of gay marriage. What do the US Constitution and the Supreme Court say about free exercise of religion? Join in this discussion which will focus on the case in which the Court will decide whether a Colorado baker violated the state\u2019s anti-discrimination law when he refused to bake a cake to celebrate a gay couple\u2019s union. Perhaps even more significant than the free exercise issue,  the case introduces another argument that splits First Amendment advocates: whether enforcement of the law violates the baker\u2019s free speech rights. <\/p>\n<p>Leland Chan is a lawyer who follows religious free exercise and establishment clause issues.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/280615957\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/280615957\">Religious Free Exercise In A Secular Society &#8211; Leland Chan<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/hcsv\">Humanist Community-SiliconValley<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\nRSVP on Meetup <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meetup.com\/humanistcommunity\/events\/249880996\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\nLike us on Facebook <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/humanistcommsv\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\nFollow us on Twitter <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HumanistCommSV\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\nSee videos of our past Forums <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/user2798508\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leland Chan May 20, 2018 Religious believers are becoming more convinced that their constitutional rights are being violated &#8211; from the barring of public prayers and religious monuments, \u201cgagging\u201d political speech in churches, to \u201ccoerced\u201d acceptance of gay marriage. What do the US Constitution and the Supreme Court say about free exercise of religion? Join &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/2018-05-20\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mini Law School &#8211; Religious Free Exercise In A Secular Society&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[243,26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10654"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10654"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10868,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10654\/revisions\/10868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}