Tough problems require creative solutions. The Fairness for All Initiative has proposed creative public accommodations laws that make sure everyone in the public receives service without forcing religious business owners to personally perform labors which compromise their religious beliefs. These proposed laws reject old public accommodations laws that only leave room for one community. And they fall squarely in line with what the United States Supreme Court in Masterpiece Cakeshop, the case about the Christian baker, said society must do: make space for everyone in the marketplace to live according to their convictions.

Learn more from these scholars:

Douglas Laycock, Liberty and Justice for All in [Religious Freedom, LGBT Rights, and the Prospects for Common Ground][0]

Kent Greenawalt, Mutual Tolerance and Sensible Exemptions in [Religious Freedom, LGBT Rights, and the Prospects for Common Ground][0]

Linda C. McClain, The Rhetoric of Bigotry and Conscience in Battles over “Religious Liberty v. LGBT Rights” in [Religious Freedom, LGBT Rights, and the Prospects for Common Ground][0]

Louise Melling, Heterosexuals Only: Signs of the Times? in [Religious Freedom, LGBT Rights, and the Prospects for Common Ground][0]

Ryan T. Anderson, Challenges to True Fairness for All: How SOGI Laws Are Unlike Civil Liberties and Other Nondiscrimination Laws and How to Craft Better Policy and Get Nondiscrimination Laws Right in [Religious Freedom, LGBT Rights, and the Prospects for Common Ground][0]

Jennifer C. Pizer, It’s Not About the Cake: Against “Altaring” the Public Marketplace in [Religious Freedom, LGBT Rights, and the Prospects for Common Ground][0]

Robin Fretwell Wilson, Bathrooms and Bakers: How Sharing the Public Square is the Key to a Truce in the Culture Wars in [Religious Freedom, LGBT Rights, and the Prospects for Common Ground][0]