Word: lambda
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...logical reason why three or four people who say 'We sincerely love each other' should be denied this status," he explains. Gay-rights groups also expect wide repercussions, though of a very different kind. "This decision was an extraordinary turning point," declares Evan Wolfson, an attorney at the Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund who served as co-counsel for the three couples, "because we now have in the cool, clear light of a courtroom a judge saying that there is no reason for government discrimination in marriage...
...conference, sponsored by the Harvard Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review and Harvard Law School Lambda, focused on the legal ramifications of recent Supreme Court rulings, congressional bills, and executive orders relating to gay rights...
...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...
...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 to force into the platform a plank banning same...
Ptashne says that Nusslem Volhard's work on the development of front fly embryos shows that many of the complicated patterns of gene regulation during development can be understood in terms of the Lambda mechanism...