The U.S. Supreme Court is poised to determine if the legal rights of married same-sex couples can be balanced with the constitutional protections of freedom of religion and speech guaranteed to people of faith who cannot accept same-sex “marriage” on moral and religious grounds. Douglas Laycock, a UVA law professor who studies religious liberty cases, said that if the high court wants to issue a narrow ruling, it could decide the case on the basis of free exercise of religion rather than free speech, and to confine that to weddings.