Harvard conference on "Religious Accommodation in the Age of Civil Rights"

Starting tonight, and continuing through Saturday morning, a number of legal scholars -- including our own Tom Berg and I -- will be presenting at a conference, at Harvard Law School, called "Religious Accommodation in the Age of Civil Rights."  Here's the conference blurb:

Current controversies over marriage equality, antidiscrimination law, and the Affordable Care Act’s contraceptive mandate have raised conflicts between religious claims, on one hand, and LGBT equality and women’s rights, on the other. The conference seeks to deepen our understanding of the competing claims by bringing together nationally recognized scholars in the fields of sexuality, gender, and law and religion. 

I am hoping (and praying) for a civil and respectful set of conversations, unclouded and untainted by the unfair and uncharitable characterizations and accusations that have, unfortunately, seemed to dominate discussions about religious exemptions, public-accommodations laws, RFRA, etc., in recent weeks.