From city councils to the U.S. Supreme Court, free speech and religious liberty advocates continue to keep a watchful eye—and a hopeful attitude—on the conflicts spilling over into 2018. As the new year begins, I asked advocates in the areas of law, education, and public policy to forecast the challenges and anticipated triumphs for 2018. The respondents were Brad Dacus, president of the Pacific Justice Institute; Gregory Seltz, executive director of the Lutheran Center for Religious Liberty; Matt Staver, chairman of Liberty Counsel; Zach Greenberg, the Justice Robert H. Jackson legal fellow at the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education; Russell Moore, executive director of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention; and Luke Goodrich, deputy general counsel at Becket. Responses have been edited for length and clarity.
What First Amendment conflicts will receive the most attention in 2018?
Dacus: “The ongoing conflict between LGBTQ anti-discrimination laws and rights of conscience.”
Seltz: “All things associated with marriage and gay marriage will continue to dominate the cases in the near future because of the false merging—my opinion, though shared by others—of the issues of marriage and civil rights. With the false notion that gay marriage is a civil right issue, rather than a First Amendment issue, and a government encroachment issue,…
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