The Ball Is In Your Court Before it Hits The Supreme Court
The Supreme Court will be hearing arguments in the matter of same sex marriage this spring, and could be making a decision on the issue over the summer. The court has heard from religious leaders, elected officials, business leaders on the subject. But now, The Human Rights Campaign and and Attorney Roberta Kaplan are joining together to provide a voice for someone whose viewpoints are no less important, but until now have not been presented to the court:
The American people.
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The Human Rights Campaign, headed since 2012 by Chad Griffin has joined with Kaplan, the lawyer who represented Edie Windsor in her challenge to The Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), to submit an amicus curiae brief to the justices in the marriage and marriage recognition ban cases out of Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, and Tennessee.
The “People’s Brief” is an online campaign run by HRC to collect to collect signatures for the brief over the next four weeks.
“Until now, they’ve never heard from the fair-minded American majority who simply wants to see their LGBT friends and neighbors treated fairly and equally under the law,” said HRC President Chad Griffin in a statement to the press. “As we fight to guarantee marriage equality for all Americans, the People’s Brief will show beyond a shadow of a doubt that the country is ready for marriage and that love can’t wait even a single day longer.”
This is the first time in history that anyone has attempt this kind of viral campaign to reach the Supreme Court, which does now allow online filings. The People’s Brief allows any American who has read the brief and agrees with it’s contents to sign, and thereby to testify of their support for marriage equality equality before the highest court in the land.
You can read The People’s Brief in it’s entirety, and sign it, at http://www.thepeoplesbrief.com
