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[PAST EVENT] Debate: Is Prohibiting Same-Sex Marriage Unconstitutional?
February 1, 2012
1pm
Co-Sponsored by The Equality Alliance, The Federalist Society, and The Institute of Bill of Rights Law: Student Division
There is probably no issue of constitutional law more salient than whether the Constitution protects gay and lesbian couples' decision to marry. Since 1998, 29 states have amended their states constitutions to prohibit gay marriage. In that same time period, 6 states and the District of Columbia have all awarded gay couples the same ability to marry as any other couple. With litigation surging through the federal court system, judges have been forced to grapple with whether the Equal Protection Clause or Due Process Clause prohibit states from banning same-sex marriage. Jordan Lorence, Senior Counsel for the Alliance Defense Fund, and Rebecca Glenberg, Legal Director of the ACLU of Virginia, will spar off on the constitutionality of excluding gays and lesbians from the legal definition of marriage.
Lunch will be served.
There is probably no issue of constitutional law more salient than whether the Constitution protects gay and lesbian couples' decision to marry. Since 1998, 29 states have amended their states constitutions to prohibit gay marriage. In that same time period, 6 states and the District of Columbia have all awarded gay couples the same ability to marry as any other couple. With litigation surging through the federal court system, judges have been forced to grapple with whether the Equal Protection Clause or Due Process Clause prohibit states from banning same-sex marriage. Jordan Lorence, Senior Counsel for the Alliance Defense Fund, and Rebecca Glenberg, Legal Director of the ACLU of Virginia, will spar off on the constitutionality of excluding gays and lesbians from the legal definition of marriage.
Lunch will be served.
Contact
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