[uua_l@uua.org: [UUA-L] UUA Honors Eric Isaacson for Marriage Equality Work]
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Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:51:42 -0400
Thread-Topic: UUA Honors Eric Isaacson for Marriage Equality Work
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Subject: [UUA-L] UUA Honors Eric Isaacson for Marriage Equality Work
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On the afternoon of June 28th, in Salt Lake City, Utah, Rev. William
Sinkford presented the President's Annual Award for Volunteer Service to
San Diego lawyer Eric Isaacson. The Award for Volunteer Service is
presented each year by the Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA) to
one or more volunteers whose service to the UUA has been vital and
extraordinary. For over five years, Isaacson has provided pro bono legal
services to the UUA and other Unitarian Universalist groups, so that the
liberal religious voice would be represented in crucial court cases,
including those related to marriage equality in California.
"We made it clear," Isaacson explained, "that people of faith will stand
on the side of love and demand equality under the law, no matter what
the courts may say. And our filings helped build a network of faith
leaders whose coordinated voices will be critical in the continuing
struggle for equal rights."
In the case that led to the California Supreme Court ruling to legalize
same-sex marriage in 2008, Isaacson filed an amicus curiae brief in
support of marriage equality on behalf of the Unitarian Universalist
Legislative Ministry (UULM) and many other national and regional
religious groups. Following the passage of Proposition 8 in November
2008, Isaacson filed an amicus brief in support of marriage equality on
behalf of the UUA, UULM, the California Council of Churches, the United
Church of Christ, the Episcopal Bishops of California and Los Angeles,
and the Progressive Jewish Alliance.
In addition to promoting marriage equality, Isaacson has also filed
amicus curiae briefs arguing on behalf of the UUA for the historic
separation of church and state and in opposition to discriminatory
practices of the Boy Scouts of America. In 2008, Isaacson received the
Unitarian Universalist of the Year Award from his congregation, the
First Unitarian Universalist Church of San Diego.
Isaacson, a partner in the San Diego office of Coughlin Stoia Geller
Rudman & Robbins, received his Bachelor of Arts from Ohio University in
1982, and his Juris Doctor degree from Duke University School of Law in
1985. He is a past president and board member of San Diego's Foundation
for Change.
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