PEACEFUL COEXISTENCE

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enacted, some will be defeated, and some will languish in committee. Many will face
constitutional challenge and will be overturned by the courts. Nonetheless, the fervent
ideological disagreements will continue. Therefore, government officials, advocacy groups, and
concerned individuals, as well as persons of faith and of good will, 34 must remain alert and ready
to combat future efforts. Nondiscrimination laws stand as a bulwark against the assaults of
intolerance and animus. May it always be so.
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Despite Obergefell’s nod to the existence of good faith religious opinion against same sex marriage, religious
objections to same sex intimacy will ultimately retain no more respect than religious objections to racial integration
and inter-racial intimacy. In a nation committed to a more Perfect Union, the arc of the religious universe is long, but
it too bends toward justice. [footnotes omitted.]
Lupu, supra note 9 at 69 - 70.