Editing LGBTQ movements (section)

== LGBT and human rights ==
Some people worry that gay rights conflict with individuals' freedom of speech,<ref>{{cite news
|url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/michael_gove/article805241.ece|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080918211024/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/michael_gove/article805241.ece|url-status=dead|archive-date=September 18, 2008|newspaper=The Times |title=I'd like to say this, but it might land me in prison|date=December 24, 2002 |first=Michael |last=Gove |location=London}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/christian-group-likens-tory-candidate-review-to-witch-hunt-1.644299
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071130205234/https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/christian-group-likens-tory-candidate-review-to-witch-hunt-1.644299|archive-date=November 30, 2007|title=Christian group likens Tory candidate review to witch hunt
|date=November 28, 2007 |publisher=CBC News}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://nationalpost.com/opinion/story.html?id=431535&p=2 |title=Conduct unbecoming a free society |date=April 9, 2008 |last=Kempling |first=Chris |newspaper=National Post }}{{dead link|date=August 2016|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref> religious freedoms in the workplace,<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.law.com/jsp/ihc/PubArticleIHC.jsp?id=1193735028038
|title=Employer's Dilemma: When Religious Expression and Gay Rights Cross|first=Judith |last=Moldover |newspaper=New York Law Journal|date=October 31, 2007 |access-date=May 13, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080928053154/http://www.law.com/jsp/ihc/PubArticleIHC.jsp?id=1193735028038 |archive-date=September 28, 2008}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1374/is_1_68/ai_n24944645 |title=Collision of religious and gay rights in the workplace |publisher=Humanist |date=January–February 2008 |first=Bob |last=Ritter |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120305210524/http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1374/is_1_68/ai_n24944645/ |archive-date=March 5, 2012 }}</ref> and the ability to run churches,<ref>{{cite news
|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/6904057.stm |title=Bishop loses gay employment case |date=July 18, 2007 |work=BBC News}}</ref> charitable organizations<ref>{{cite news
|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2080669/Catholic-adoption-service-stops-over-gay-rights.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2080669/Catholic-adoption-service-stops-over-gay-rights.html |archive-date=January 12, 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Catholic adoption service stops over gay rights |date=June 5, 2008|newspaper=Telegraph |first=Martin |last=Beckford | location=London}}{{cbignore}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2006/03/10/catholic_charities_to_halt_adoptions_over_issue_involving_gays/ |title=Catholic Charities to halt adoptions over issue involving gays |date=March 10, 2006 |last=LeBlanc |first=Steve |newspaper=Boston Globe |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090207112006/http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2006/03/10/catholic_charities_to_halt_adoptions_over_issue_involving_gays/ |archive-date=February 7, 2009 }}</ref> and other religious organizations<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.therecord.com/News/CanadaWorld/article/341201|date=April 24, 2008|first=Greg|last=Mercer|publisher=The Record|title=Christian Horizons rebuked: Employer ordered to compensate fired gay worker, abolish code of conduct|access-date=July 7, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080706173512/http://news.therecord.com/News/CanadaWorld/article/341201|archive-date=July 6, 2008}}</ref> that hold opposing social and cultural views to LGBT rights. There is also concern that religious organizations might be forced to accept and perform [[same-sex marriage]]s or risk losing their tax-exempt status.<ref name=BannedBoston>{{cite news|url=http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/012/191kgwgh.asp|title=Banned in Boston:The coming conflict between same-sex marriage and religious liberty|first=Maggie|last=Gallagher|date=May 15, 2006|volume=011|issue=33|access-date=June 18, 2008|archive-date=May 16, 2006|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060516000949/http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/012/191kgwgh.asp}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/14/nyregion/14civil.html
|date=August 14, 2007 |title=Church Group Complains of Civil Union Pressure|first=Jill |last=Capuzzo |newspaper=New York Times}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/18/nyregion/18grove.html|title=Group Loses Tax Break Over Gay Union Issue|first=Jill |last=Capuzzo|newspaper=New York Times|date=September 18, 2007|access-date=May 7, 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,700226242,00.html
|title=LDS Church expresses disappointment in California gay marriage decision |date=May 15, 2008 |first=Carrie |last=Moore |newspaper=[[Deseret News]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090601193325/http://www.deseretnews.com/article/1%2C5143%2C700226242%2C00.html |archive-date=June 1, 2009 }}</ref>

[[Freedom of religion]] may, however, also protect LGBT people. As pointed out at the [[United Nations Human Rights Council]] in the 2023 formal report of the [[United Nations Independent Expert on sexual orientation and gender identity]] on the basis of the explanation in a 2020 article by human rights expert [[Dag Øistein Endsjø]], adherents of denominations and belief systems who embrace LGBT-equality "can claim that anti-LGBT manifestations of religion (such as criminalization and discrimination) not only impinge upon the right of LGBT people to be free from violence and discrimination based on SOGI [sexual orientation and gender identity], but also violate the [pro-LGBT] denominations' own rights of freedom of religion".

As pointed out in this article, freedom of religion also generally protects LGBT people against religious oppression, as freedom of religion also protects the “freedom ... not to hold religious beliefs and ... not to practise a religion”.<ref>[[United Nations Human Rights Council]] ''[https://www.ohchr.org/en/documents/thematic-reports/ahrc5337-report-independent-expert-protection-against-violence-and|A/HRC/53/37 Freedom of religion or belief, and freedom from violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity: Report of the Independent Expert on protection against violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity]'', 7 June 2023, § 162; [[Dag Øistein Endsjø]] “[https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13642987.2020.1763961 The other way around? How freedom of religion may protect LGBT rights]”, ''The International Journal of Human Rights'' 24:10 (2020), pp. 1686-88; Buscarini and Others v. San Marino (1999), 24645/94, European Court of Human Rights, § 34; cf. United Nation Human Rights Committee, General Comment No. 22, 1993, 2.</ref> As the [[United Nations Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion or Belief]] noted in 2017, “in certain States where religion has been given ‘official’ or privileged status, other fundamental rights of individuals – especially women, religious minorities and members of the LGBTI community – are disproportionately restricted or vitiated under threat of sanctions as a result of obligatory observation of State-imposed religious orthodoxy.”<ref>United Nations Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion or Belief, ''Report of the Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion and Belief'', A/HRC/34/50, 17 January 2017, § 45.</ref>