Abstract
JAMES MADIGAN: Our question today [October 22, 1999] is whether America should recognize same-sex marriage. We have two sets of panelists who will address this question. Joining us in this first session are Reverend Gregory Dell and Rabbi Arnold Wolf, so we have a nice representation from the clergy; I think it is important to have a religious perspective on this issue rather than one dominated by law. Dwight Duncan joins us from Southern New England School of Law. Dwight's got a connection to a case that actually has a Chicago connection, which makes our symposium today quite timely. Two Chicago alumni are on either side of the table in the Vermont same-sex marriage case. Dwight Duncan has worked on amicus briefs on that particular case. Vince Samar, is a professor of Philosophy at Loyola, and an adjunct professor of Law at Chicago-Kent, works in Law and Philosophy, and is a good friend. I thank him for coming on scant notice and vague emails; he was always willing to accommodate us, and I appreciate that. Hannah Garber-Paul is from the city of Chicago, a friend of Professor Nussbaum and Rabbi Wolf, a member of "First Breath" which many of you may have heard of in Chicago, a very well received theatrical production concerning the lives of gay and lesbian youth. Our own professor, Martha Nussbaum, the Ernst Freund Professor of Law and Ethics in the Law School, the Divinity School and the Department of Philosophy here at the ...