The University of New Mexico School of Law student organizations will sponsor a teach-in on gay marriage Wednesday, March 24, at 6 p.m. in the UNM law school forum, 1117 Stanford NE. The event is free and open to the public.
The teach-in will explore the reasoning of state court judgments and individuals in government who issued marriage licenses to gay couples, the implications on an individual's constitutional rights and recent proposal by President Bush to pass an amendment to the constitution to limit marriage to a union between a man and a woman.
UNM Professor of Law James Ellis, constitutional law expert, Michael Adams, director of Education and Public Affairs for the Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, and Lynn Perls, domestic relations attorney in Rio Rancho, will speak.
Student groups sponsoring the event include the Lambda Law Student Association, Women's Law Caucus, Native American Law Students Association and American Civil Liberties Union of New Mexico.
Contact: Laurie Mellas-Ramirez (505) 277-5915
Posted by kwentworth at March 18, 2004 10:34 AM