{"id":7407,"date":"2017-09-15T10:04:03","date_gmt":"2017-09-15T17:04:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=7407"},"modified":"2018-03-05T22:53:51","modified_gmt":"2018-03-06T06:53:51","slug":"symposium-conscience-conditions-and-access-to-civil-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=7407","title":{"rendered":"Symposium: Conscience, conditions, and access to civil society"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scotusblog.com\/\"><strong>SCOTUSblog<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"author\">Richard Garnett<a href=\"https:\/\/www.consciencelaws.org\/authors.aspx#Richard_Garnett\">*<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It is striking how easy it has become for a person to stumble into the status of a symbol \u2013 or, these days, a viral meme. Jack Phillips is, or was until fairly recently, a skilled cake artist with a small business, Masterpiece Cakeshop, in suburban Denver. Today, he is a litigant in the Supreme Court of the United States and regarded by many as embodying the tension \u2013 increasingly, the conflict \u2013 between religious conscience and equality. . . Can he be required, though \u2013 should he be required, is it necessary for him to be required \u2013 to say something he thinks is not true, to disavow what he believes or to act expressively in violation of his conscience? . . . [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.consciencelaws.org\/law\/commentary\/legal077.aspx\">Full text<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SCOTUSblog Richard Garnett* It is striking how easy it has become for a person to stumble into the status of a symbol \u2013 or, these days, a viral meme. Jack Phillips is, or was until fairly recently, a skilled cake artist with a small business, Masterpiece Cakeshop, in suburban Denver. Today, he is a litigant &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=7407\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Symposium: Conscience, conditions, and access to civil society&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5432,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,459,295,28],"tags":[],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-7407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal-commentary","category-pluralism-secularism","category-religious-freedom","category-usa"],"yoast_head":"\r\n<title>Symposium: Conscience, conditions, and access to civil society - Protection of Conscience Project News<\/title>\r\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\r\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=7407\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Symposium: Conscience, conditions, and access to civil society - Protection of Conscience Project News\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"SCOTUSblog Richard Garnett* It is striking how easy it has become for a person to stumble into the status of a symbol \u2013 or, these days, a viral meme. 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