So can Mormon landlords discriminate against same-sex married couples?
Posted: Wed Nov 16, 2022 5:44 am
In other words, has anything really changed? Thank you.
I don't think a Mormon landlord would be able to deny housing to same-sex couples based on his/her personal religious beliefs, even in light of the proposed law. It doesn't even appear that a church-own property that operates as a business could deny housing to same-sex couples.
Federal Courts have already ruled that the federal Fair Housing Act prohibits discrimination by landlords against same-sex spouses. (That doesn't mean Mormon landlords won't try to discriminate. These issues refuse to go away quietly. The bakeries that refuse to make cakes to celebrate a same-sex wedding still pop up in the news.)
The protections for religious discrimination against same-sex marriage seem to attach to the church, itself, as a ministry and religion separated from its for-profit housing businesses.