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1 Akron Strict Scrutiny 1 (2009-2010)

handle is hein.journals/akjopal1 and id is 1 raw text is: TEN QUESTIONS ON GAY RIGHTS AND
FREEDOM OF RELIGION
Wilson R. Huhn
Professor Dent has made careful and thorough arguments against
gay rights.'    His work deserves serious consideration and a serious
response.
Our first task is to clear away the brush, to clarify the issues, to
establish those points upon which Professor Dent and I both agree, so
that we can more clearly understand precisely where we disagree. For
that purpose I have prepared a series of ten questions that will
progressively narrow the issues concerning gay rights and free exercise
rights until we come to the principal point upon which Professor Dent
and I disagree - the definition and application of the principle of
equality.
* B.A. Yale University, 1972; J.D. Cornell Law School, 1977; C. Blake McDowell, Jr., Professor
of Law, University of Akron School of Law. I dedicate this essay to my sister, Elisabeth, who
exemplifies courage and devotion.
1. See George W. Dent, Jr., How' Does Same-Sex Marriage Threaten You?, 59 RUTGERs L.
REv. 233 (2007) [hereinafter Howv Does Same-Sex Marriage Threaten You?]; George W. Dent, Jr.,
Civil Rights for Whom?: Gay Rights Versus Religious Freedom, 95 KY. L.J. 553 (2007) [hereinafter
Civil Rights for Whom?]. For other recent scholarship on gay rights and freedom of religion, see,
e.g., Ben Schuman, Gods and Gays: Analyzing the Same-Sex Marriage Debate From a Religious
Perspective, 96 GEO. L.J. 2103 (2008); Note, First Amendment - California Supreme Court Holds
That Free Exercise of Religion Does Not Give Fertility Doctors Right to Deny Treatment to
Lesbians. - North Coast Women's Care Medical Group, Inc. v. San Diego County Superior Court,
189 P.3d 959 (Cal. 2008), 122 HARV. L. REv. 787 (2008).
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Wilson R. Huhn, Ten Questions on Gay Rights and Freedom ofReligion, 1
AKRON STRICT SCRUTINY 1 (2009),
http://strictscrutiny.akronIawreview.com/files/2009/07/ten-questions-on-gay-
rights-and-freedom-of-religion.pdf.

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