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Topic: Debating Religious Liberty and Discrimination

Virtually everyone supports religious liberty, and virtually everyone opposes discrimination. But how do we handle the hard questions that arise when exercises of religious liberty seem to discriminate unjustly? How do we promote the common good while respecting conscience in a diverse society? Ryan Anderson will try to help us answer these questions on Tuesday, Sept. 12, at 7pm in the Grant Center.

Ryan T. Anderson, Ph.D., is the William E. Simon Senior Research Fellow at The Heritage Foundation, and the founder and editor of Public Discourse, the online journal of the Witherspoon Institute of Princeton, New Jersey.

He is the author of Truth Overruled: The Future of Marriage and Religious Freedom and the co-author with Princeton’s Robert P. George and Sherif Girgis of What Is Marriage? Man and Woman: A Defense. Anderson’s research has been cited by two U.S. Supreme Court justices, Justice Samuel Alito and Justice Clarence Thomas, in two Supreme Court cases.

Anderson received his bachelor of arts degree from Princeton University, graduating Phi Beta Kappa and magna cum laude, and he received his doctoral degree in political philosophy from the University of Notre Dame. His dissertation was titled: “Neither Liberal Nor Libertarian: A Natural Law Approach to Social Justice and Economic Rights.”

Anderson has made appearances on ABC, CNN, CNBC, MSNBC, and Fox News. His work has appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, the Harvard Health Policy Review, the Weekly Standard, and National Review.

In spring 2017, Oxford University Press released Anderson’s latest book, Debating Religious Liberty and Discrimination, co-authored with Sherif Girgis and John Corvino. Also in spring 2017, the University of Notre Dame Press released a book of collected essays, A Liberalism Safe for Catholicism? Perspectives from “The Review of Politics”, which he edited with Dan Philpott.

Anderson is currently at work on a book titled, When Harry Became Sally: Responding to the Transgender Moment.

Follow him on Twitter: @RyanTAnd For his latest essays and videos, follow his public Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/RyanTAndersonPhD

This event is sponsored by the Center for Politics and Religion, the Department of Political Science, the College of Arts & Sciences, and the School of Theology and Missions.