Wednesday, March 13, 2013

[SDCPJ] LOVE & The LAW: A Community Forum on Upcoming Marriage Equality Rulings

LOVE   &  The LAW

On March 26 and 27, the United States Supreme Court will hear cases challenging California's Proposition 8 and the federal Defense of Marriage Act, which ban legal recognition of same-sex couples' marriages. Will they uphold the lower-court rulings that have declared marriage equality a civil right? Will they reverse them and say the definition of marriage should be led to each state? Or will they look for a procedural "out" that will allow them to rule narrowly in these cases without establishing any sweeping precedents?

SAME and Activist San Diego invite you to a community forum

@ the Joyce Beers Center at 3900 Vermont St, San Diego, CA. 92103.
Mon, 03/18/13 at 7:00pm
(please come at 6:30pm for seating)


Hear prominent local attorneys and activists discuss the legal issues surrounding marriage equality and what the Supreme Court is likely to do.

Featured Speakers:

ERIC ISAACSON
Local attorney representing the California Council of Churches as friends of the court in the case against Prop 8

TODD MOORE
Local attorney who represented former SAME Alliance president Cecile Veillard in the "Equality Nine" case involving protesters for marriage equality

FERNANDO LOPEZ
Administrative and public affairs director, San Diego LGBT Pride; former political affairs director, San Diego LGBT Community Center

LEO E. LAURENCE, J.D.
Veteran community activist who led the first-ever U.S. protest against a private employer for anti-LGBT discrimination in San Francisco in March 1969

JOSE MEDINA
Community Activist and member of SAME Alliance since 2008 as a straight ally.

For further information, please call Mark Gabrish Conlan at (619) 688-1886

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