Reclaiming religion from the right: A same gender marriage amicus brief filed today

[Ms. Toad]

3. Thank you - and you're welcome.

I've been a publicly named officer of a North American LGBTQ group, (which earned me a welcome-to-your-new-position piece of hate mail from Fred Phelps), the first marriage in our faith community, the only same gender adoption case in Ohio (In re: Adoption of Jane Doe), and a founding member (and first board member) of Equality Ohio. I never set out to be an activist (on this issue). It just kind of fell in my lap as I kept tackling the next thing that smacked me in the face.

This amicus brief work has been a joy, but not much work. Kramer Levin has been putting the briefs together - amici have been fact checking the portions that pertain to our individual faith communities and recommending that we sign (or not). My name being included caught me by surprise (although I knew it was a possibility from the general suggestions we had sent them).