Emory Law Professor Michael J. Perry will explain why denying civil marriage to same-sex couples violates the internationally recognized right to religious freedom, his topic for the annual Currie Lecture at Emory University School of Law.
Perry's lecture, "Freedom of Religion, Same-Sex Marriage and the Catholic Church," will focus on the Catholic Church's principal rationale for denying access to civil marriage to same-sex couples and explain why that rationale is an illegitimate basis of law and public policy under the right to religious freedom.