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Following Frank's address, Law School graduates Evan Wolfson and Michelle Benecke discussed legislative obstacles to same-sex marriages and gays in the military...
...winning the freedom to marry. That is the historical moment we are living in," said Wolfson, marriage project director of the National Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, and lead counsel for Baehr v. Miike, the country's most prominent case concerning gay marriage...
...Wolfson compared the fight for same-sex marriages to the struggle in the 1960s legalize inter-racial marriages...
...Harris is Wolfson Professor of Jewish Studies...
...marriage issue, with mixed results: five states--Georgia, Kansas, Idaho, South Dakota and Utah--have enacted bans, and 13 others have rejected them. Gay activists are leaning on historical precedent to quash other efforts. "In our lifetime it was illegal to marry someone of the 'wrong race,'" says Evan Wolfson, who directs the Marriage Project for the Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund in New York. "Our opponents talk about marriage like it's been the same for 6,000 years." Count on the religious right's taking the issue to the G.O.P. Convention in San Diego--and trying...