"Sexual Orientation and The Constitution"

• Event Date: Friday, May 1, 2009
• Time: 04:00 pm (CDT)
• Location: Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory St., Urbana, IL
• Cost: Free Admission

• Talk

Center for Advanced Study
CAS/MillerComm Lecture Series
"Sexual Orientation and The Constitution"

Martha C. Nussbaum
Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics, University of Chicago

Martha Nussbaum examines the most prominent arguments opposing same-sex marriage against the backdrop of a philosophical/legal analysis that focuses on the need to resist a "politics of disgust," in favor of a politics based on equal respect for persons. She then asks what the constitutional protection of a "right to marry" implies, concluding that it requires the equal provision of marriage to same-sex couples.

Museum visitors are reminded that outside food and drinks are not allowed in the Museum. Backpacks and other large items brought to the Museum will have to be stored; there is limited locker storage space available for these items.