Scholarship

Same-Sex Marriage and Religious Liberty: Emerging Conflicts

Douglas Laycock

Co-author(s)

Anthony M. Picarello ,

Robin Fretwell Wilson

Date

2008

Citation

Douglas Laycock, Anthony M. Picarello, & Robin Fretwell Wilson, eds., Same-Sex Marriage and Religious Liberty: Emerging Conflicts, Rowman and Littlefield (2008).

UVA Law Faculty Affiliations

Douglas Laycock

Constitutional Law and Legal History

Center for the First Amendment

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