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TechnographVisiting professor to hold lectures, discussions on gay marriage issues
By Sky Opila
Posted: 10/6/05 Section: News
Evan Wolfson, Executive Director of the Freedom to Marry Project and professor of law at Columbia University, has been on campus since Wednesday, and will be here till Friday, holding discussions about gay marriage. His series of lectures and discussions coincides with the release of his book "Marriage as a Human Rights Battlefield."
According to his official biography, Wolfson worked for the Lambda Legal Defense & Education Fund in New York City, where he represented several gay marriage cases in front of the Supreme Court. In 2000, Wolfson was honored by the National Law Journal as one of "100 most influential attorneys in America."
Wolfson will lead talks and discussions about the facets of gay marriage, including opposition, legality and necessity. His talks will provide insight about how gay marriage is necessary to uphold the United States' free ideals.
The discussions will cover issues surrounding marriage throughout history for homosexuals and heterosexuals in Western culture. In addition, they will address other issues, such as, political debate across the board for nontraditional families across the nation.
Thursday's event will be a lecture followed by questions. However, Wolfson will hold discussions every day he is on campus.
The lecture this evening is being sponsored by the Office for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Concerns and McKinley Memorial Presbyterian Church.
Tom Seals, retired University counselor and professor, feels that Wolfson's discussions are key to the lives of many students. Seals is a member of McKinley Memorial Presbyterian Church's More Light Committee, an advocate group for equal rights in religious institutions.
"Gay students need to realize how important it is that their relationships are recognized as lawful through marriage," Seals said. "This debate is the larger civil rights movement of our time; it is both important to social policy and choice through civil rights."
According to his official biography, Wolfson worked for the Lambda Legal Defense & Education Fund in New York City, where he represented several gay marriage cases in front of the Supreme Court. In 2000, Wolfson was honored by the National Law Journal as one of "100 most influential attorneys in America."
Wolfson will lead talks and discussions about the facets of gay marriage, including opposition, legality and necessity. His talks will provide insight about how gay marriage is necessary to uphold the United States' free ideals.
The discussions will cover issues surrounding marriage throughout history for homosexuals and heterosexuals in Western culture. In addition, they will address other issues, such as, political debate across the board for nontraditional families across the nation.
Thursday's event will be a lecture followed by questions. However, Wolfson will hold discussions every day he is on campus.
The lecture this evening is being sponsored by the Office for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Concerns and McKinley Memorial Presbyterian Church.
Tom Seals, retired University counselor and professor, feels that Wolfson's discussions are key to the lives of many students. Seals is a member of McKinley Memorial Presbyterian Church's More Light Committee, an advocate group for equal rights in religious institutions.
"Gay students need to realize how important it is that their relationships are recognized as lawful through marriage," Seals said. "This debate is the larger civil rights movement of our time; it is both important to social policy and choice through civil rights."
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