{"id":57901,"date":"2017-11-14T12:00:32","date_gmt":"2017-11-14T17:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/tip-sheet-how-to-cover-religious-exemptions-court-cases-federal-guidance-and-legislation\/"},"modified":"2017-11-14T12:00:32","modified_gmt":"2017-11-14T17:00:32","slug":"tip-sheet-how-to-cover-religious-exemptions-court-cases-federal-guidance-and-legislation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/tip-sheet-how-to-cover-religious-exemptions-court-cases-federal-guidance-and-legislation\/","title":{"rendered":"Tip Sheet: How to cover &#8220;religious exemptions&#8221; court cases, federal guidance, and legislation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Tip Sheet: How to cover &#8220;religious exemptions&#8221; court cases, federal guidance, and legislation<\/b><\/p>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p><strong><em>This is not about \u2018religious freedom\u2019 or \u2018religious liberty,\u2019 the accurate term is \u2018religious exemptions\u2019<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On December 5, 2017, the U.S. Supreme Court will take up oral arguments for <em>Masterpiece Cakeshop, Ltd. v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission<\/em>. This case centers around a bakery asking for exemption from Colorado state non-discrimination law based on the owner\u2019s objection to serving <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a> people.<\/p>\n<p><strong>QUICK TIPS:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Use the term \u201creligious exemptions\u201d over inaccurate terminology such as \u201creligious freedom\u201d or \u201creligious liberty.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>This is not about wedding cakes. Religious exemptions laws would allow doctors, landlords, adoption agencies, funeral homes, and more to legally deny service to LGBTQ families and other marginalized communities simply by citing religious beliefs. Remember to frame all stories in the context of the broader ramifications of these \u201creligious exemptions\u201d cases.<\/li>\n<li>Do not pit religion against the LGBTQ community. Include the voices of progressive faith leaders from diverse communities.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This debate around religious exemptions has reached the highest levels of our government, with President Trump threatening multiple sweeping religious exemption executive orders. Since assuming office, the Trump Administration used the argument of religious exemptions to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonblade.com\/2017\/10\/06\/sessions-issues-broad-religious-freedom-guidance\/\">invite<\/a> taxpayer-funded federal agencies, government employees, and government contractors to legally discriminate against LGBTQ employees and <a href=\"https:\/\/rewire.news\/article\/2017\/10\/06\/trump-opens-door-end-birth-control-benefit\/\">deny<\/a> <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/?mp_code=akftr\">women<\/a>, <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/offers.cam4tracking.com\/aff_c?offer_id=125&#38;aff_id=2778&#38;source=gfcsb\">trans<\/a> <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">men<\/a>, and gender non-conforming people access to healthcare. Further, religious exemption legislation is becoming increasingly widespread in statehouses across the country with more than 135 bills introduced in state legislatures in 2016 and 2017, despite the fact that these types of laws run counter to the will of the American public, as shown in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prri.org\/research\/americans-views-discrimination-immigrants-blacks-lgbt-sex-marriage-immigration-reform\/\">recent study<\/a> by the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI).<br \/>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>GUIDE FOR REPORTING ON \u2018RELIGIOUS EXEMPTIONS\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>These tips are intended to help journalists discern myths from facts and report fairly and accurately on religious exemptions<\/strong>. Please consider the following guidelines when covering religious exemptions stories.<\/p>\n<p><strong>DON\u2019T <\/strong>use the terminology \u201creligious freedom\u201d or \u201creligious liberty.\u201d Advocates for these types of bills often describe the issue as purely about religious freedom or liberty.\u00a0 However, they are actually quite different from religious liberty as it is usually understood. At their core, these cases are not about the right to practice religion freely, but rather using religion as a tool to push for exemptions from laws created to protect fellow citizens.<\/p>\n<p><strong>DO <\/strong>use the terminology \u201c<strong>religious exemption<\/strong>.\u201d It is imperative that journalists distinguish between classic religious liberty cases \u2013 which Americans of all political persuasions support \u2013 and \u201creligious exemptions\u201d cases where a third party is harmed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>DON\u2019T <\/strong>make this all about wedding cakes and flower shops. Religious exemptions have the ability to harmfully affect every part of our lives as LGBTQ people and should not be reduced in scope and scale or made light of in any way.<\/p>\n<p><strong>DO <\/strong>seek to investigate the broad range of ways that religious exemptions can negatively affect the lives of LGBTQ people, including in accessing healthcare, employee benefits, adoption and child protection, domestic violence services, employment, and more. Religious exemptions are a serious issue and can have a serious impact on people\u2019s lives and livelihoods.<\/p>\n<p><strong>DON\u2019T <\/strong>solely frame your story from the point of view of the individual who seeks to discriminate. There are at least two sides for each religious exemption story, and both should be represented.<\/p>\n<p><strong>DO <\/strong>consider how bias framing can affect public opinion surrounding religious exemptions. <em>Example<\/em>: One survey three years ago, respondents were asked: \u201cShould religiously-affiliated institutions that object to the use of contraceptives be given an exemption from the Affordable Care Act?\u201d\u00a0 48% said yes, 42% said no, with the rest unsure.\u00a0The same people were then asked: \u201cShould <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/?mp_code=akftr\">women<\/a> employed by Catholic universities and hospitals have the same rights as other <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/?mp_code=akftr\">women<\/a>?\u201d\u00a0 56% said yes, 39% said no.<\/p>\n<p><strong>DON\u2019T <\/strong>take a narrowly focused, one-off view of religious exemption cases. The reality is that the organizations including Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) that are fighting for religious exemptions are the same groups that led the fight against marriage equality and transgender rights, and have supported the criminalization of homosexuality. This anti-LGBTQ agenda has resulted in Southern Poverty Law Center classifying ADF as a designated hate group. It\u2019s not a side-effect that \u201cNo Gays Allowed\u201d makes LGBTQ rights second-class; it\u2019s the intended effect.<\/p>\n<p><strong>DO <\/strong>contextualize religious exemption cases within the history of religious exemption legislation that has been advanced historically with the intention of rolling back the rights and freedoms of LGBTQ people in the United States.<\/p>\n<p><strong>DON\u2019T <\/strong>ascribe religious beliefs to entire companies. In our democracy, everyone obeys the same laws.\u00a0 Businesses are artificial constructs of law.\u00a0 When you set one up, you\u2019re agreeing to abide by the rules of the marketplace, not the rules of your personal religious beliefs.\u00a0 That\u2019s how it\u2019s meant to work.\u00a0Corporations aren\u2019t people.<\/p>\n<p><strong>DO <\/strong>frame religious beliefs as personal and individualized rather than a monolith.<\/p>\n<p><strong>DON\u2019T <\/strong>approach religious exemption cases as a simple story. These cases are about the real and perceived rights of individuals, and they have larger legal, political and historical contexts that need to be considered.<\/p>\n<p><strong>DO<\/strong> ask big questions. Where do you draw the line between a \u201creligious exemptions\u201d and a \u201cseparate and unequal\u201d system, where some groups don\u2019t have to obey the same laws as others? When questions of religious liberty are posed in the abstract, everyone understands them.\u00a0 When they move from theory into practice, it\u2019s not so simple.<\/p>\n<p><strong>DON\u2019T <\/strong>set up a false dichotomy of \u2018God versus Gay,\u2019 in your coverage with religious conservatives on one side, and secular LGBTQ activists on the other.\u00a0 Not only is this an arbitrary and artificial divide, it actually misrepresents how Americans feel about this issue. A survey by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prri.org\/research\/americans-views-discrimination-immigrants-blacks-lgbt-sex-marriage-immigration-reform\/\">Public Religious Research Institute<\/a> (PRRI) discovered that a majority of Americans are opposed to \u201creligious exemptions\u201d that would allow discrimination.\u00a0Further, there was no religious group surveyed in which a majority favored \u201creligious exemptions,\u201d targeting LGBTQ people, including white evangelical Protestants.<\/p>\n<p><strong>DO <\/strong>include progressive voices and progressive faith leaders from diverse communities in the national conversation around religious exemptions.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>About GLAAD:<\/strong> GLAAD amplifies the voice of the LGBTQ community by empowering real people to share their stories, holding the media accountable for the words and images they present, and helping grassroots organizations communicate effectively. By ensuring that the stories of LGBTQ people are heard through the media, GLAAD promotes understanding, increases acceptance, and advances equality.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><span>November 14, 2017<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.glaad.org\/blog\/tip-sheet-how-cover-religious-exemptions-court-cases-federal-guidance-and-legislation\" class=\"autohyperlink\">www.glaad.org\/blog\/tip-sheet-how-cover-religious-exemptions-court-cases-federal-guidance-and-legislation<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tip Sheet: How to cover &#8220;religious exemptions&#8221; court cases, federal guidance, and legislation This is not about \u2018religious freedom\u2019 or \u2018religious liberty,\u2019 the accurate term is \u2018religious exemptions\u2019 On December 5, 2017, the U.S. Supreme Court will take up oral arguments for Masterpiece Cakeshop, Ltd. v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission. This case centers around a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/tip-sheet-how-to-cover-religious-exemptions-court-cases-federal-guidance-and-legislation\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tip Sheet: How to cover &#8220;religious exemptions&#8221; court cases, federal guidance, and legislation<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2466,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[107],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Tip Sheet: How to cover &quot;religious exemptions&quot; court cases, federal guidance, and legislation - GAYFRIENDSCHAT.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/tip-sheet-how-to-cover-religious-exemptions-court-cases-federal-guidance-and-legislation\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Tip Sheet: How to cover &quot;religious exemptions&quot; court cases, federal guidance, and legislation - GAYFRIENDSCHAT.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Tip Sheet: How to cover &#8220;religious exemptions&#8221; court cases, federal guidance, and legislation This is not about \u2018religious freedom\u2019 or \u2018religious liberty,\u2019 the accurate term is \u2018religious exemptions\u2019 On December 5, 2017, the U.S. Supreme Court will take up oral arguments for Masterpiece Cakeshop, Ltd. v. 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