Marriage Equality and Social Change: Lessons for Advocates
Advocates for same-sex marriage turned public opinion in states around the nation — as measured by polls and in voting booths —with astonishing rapidity. At the same time, litigation in the Proposition 8 cases in California made a powerful rights argument for marriage equality. How that two-pronged approach to change-making was used, and how it is being studied by other advocates, will be the topic of a panel discussion that marks the release of Professor Kenji Yoshino’s new book, “Speak Now: Marriage Equality on Trial.”
With panelists:
KENJI YOSHINO
Chief Justice Earl Warren Professor of Constitutional Law,
New York University School of Law
EVAN WOLFSON
Founder and President,
Freedom to Marry
JOHN FEINBLATT
President of Everytown for Gun Safety
Moderated by
MERYL CHERTOFF
Executive Director, The Aspen Institute Justice & Society Program