{"id":7783,"date":"2015-06-21T07:54:04","date_gmt":"2015-06-21T07:54:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/?p=7783"},"modified":"2015-12-03T07:30:39","modified_gmt":"2015-12-03T07:30:39","slug":"2015-06-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/2015-06-21\/","title":{"rendered":"Marriage Equality and Beyond"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>Leah Nutting<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>June 21, 2015<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Attorney Leah Nutting will discuss the constitutional and cultural issues currently before the U.S. Supreme Court in the same-sex marriage equality cases, as well as other issues on the legal front affecting the LGBT community, including employment discrimination, \u201creligious freedom\u201d laws, and issues impacting transgender persons. The discussion will touch upon her recent Amicus work on the Board of Bay Area Lawyers for Individual Freedom (BALIF), the nation\u2019s oldest and largest LGBT bar association. Over the past year, BALIF filed amicus briefs challenging same-sex marriage bans around the country, culminating in their amicus brief filed in the U.S. Supreme Court in March 2015.<\/p>\n<p>In order to view the video of this Forum, please enter the password:<\/p>\n<p>the2015621Forum<\/p>\n<p>immediately below. This has been set up this way (at the speaker&#8217;s request) so that this video is only viewable from this webpage.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/131402518\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/131402518\">Humanist Community Forum (2015-06-21): Marriage Equality and Beyond (Leah Nutting)<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/user2798508\">Humanist Community-SiliconValley<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leah Nutting June 21, 2015 Attorney Leah Nutting will discuss the constitutional and cultural issues currently before the U.S. Supreme Court in the same-sex marriage equality cases, as well as other issues on the legal front affecting the LGBT community, including employment discrimination, \u201creligious freedom\u201d laws, and issues impacting transgender persons. The discussion will touch &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/2015-06-21\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Marriage Equality and Beyond&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[243,26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7783"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7783"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7843,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7783\/revisions\/7843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}