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Religious freedom and anti-discrimination in Europe and the us: generally applicable laws and possible exceptions
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The American legal scholar Douglas Laycock argues that the same-sex marriage debate has been an instance of the “Puritan mistake” (Laycock 2008). According to Laycock, the Puritans came to the United States to gain religious freedom, but once they had a theocracy in Massachusetts that was enough liberty for them: people of other Christian denominations and other faiths could go elsewhere if they wanted to be free. His example shows the difficulty in maintainin...
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- Springer Nature Publisher's website
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- The Social Equality of Religion or Belief
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- Social Equality of Religion or Belief
- Publication date:
- 2016-01-01
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668010
- ISBN-10:
- 1137501944
- ISBN-13:
- 9781349699339
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- © The Editors 2016. This is the accepted manuscript version of the article. The final version is available online from Springer at: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137501950_3
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