Tag Archives: Freedom To Marry

LGBT Rights Groups React To SCOTUS

Freedom To Marry “The Supreme Court’s decision today begins what we hope will be the last chapter in our campaign to win marriage nationwide – and it’s time,” said Evan Wolfson, president of Freedom to Marry. “Freedom to Marry’s national strategy has been to build a critical mass of marriage states and critical mass of support for ending marriage discrimination, …

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TEXAS: Freedom To Marriage Launches Ad

Via press release: Freedom to Marry began airing a statewide television ad this week in Texas featuring Fort Worth police officers who speak out in support of their gay colleague’s freedom to marry. The thirty-second ad began running yesterday in multiple Texas markets during news and public affairs programs and comes days before the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals hears …

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Quote Of The Day – Marc Solomon

“We’ve always been set up as a campaign, and we are a campaign, and when we’ve won nationwide, we’re finished. I want to see some of the really good people stick around in LGBT stuff, or in other progressive causes, but Freedom To Marry’s done.”- Marc Solomon, national campaign director of Freedom To Marry, telling the Washington Blade that it’s …

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BREAKING: Fourth Circuit Court DENIES Marriage Stay For South Carolina

UPDATE: Lambda Legal reacts via press release: Today, the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit denied the State of South Carolina’s motion to stay last week’s U.S. District Court ruling striking down the state’s discriminatory marriage ban, setting the stage for marriages to begin for same-sex couples at Noon on Thursday, November 20. South Carolina’s Attorney General filed …

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Launched: New Texas Marriage Campaign

Via press release from Freedom To Marry: Freedom to Marry, in partnership with Equality Texas, today launched a public education campaign to amplify the bipartisan momentum for the freedom to marry in the Lone Star State. The campaign, called Texas for Marriage, will highlight that support as well as the continued harms that committed gay couples face everyday until the …

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Lovely New Ad From Freedom To Marry

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Tweet Of The Day – Evan Wolfson

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Brian Brown Vs Evan Wolfson

This weekend Freedom To Marry head Evan Wolfson faced down hate group leader Brian Brown in an hour-long call-in show on C-SPAN. After you wade through Brown’s opening bloviation, you’ll get to a great statement by Wolfson.   UPDATE: OMG, the caller at 12:45.   UPDATE II: The caller at 29:30 is wonderful.   UPDATE III: At 43:00 Wolfson nails …

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Brian Brown: I Am Now David And The Human Rights Campaign Is Goliath

“Right now I think folks who look at this issue and think that NOM or any of the groups out there supporting the traditional definition of marriage, that we’re the Goliath, and the pro-gay marriage Human Rights Campaign is the David — they’ve got the story in reverse. They are one organization among a whole platter of organizations like Freedom …

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UTAH: 49% Back Same-Sex Marriage

Freedom To Marry reports on a just-released poll they commissioned in Utah: A plurality of Utahns – 49% to 48% – agree that same sex-couples should be allowed to get a state-issued marriage license. Moreover, 61% believe legalizing marriage for same-sex couples in Utah is inevitable and will happen in the state within the next five years. And, by a …

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New From Freedom To Marry

This clip will debut on Sunday’s network news shows.

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Richard Blanco – Until We Could

I got to see this gorgeous short back in April at the tenth anniversary celebration of Freedom To Marry. The Daily Beast recaps: It is a decade since the U.S. first state, Massachusetts, enshrined marriage equality in law, and since the founding of campaign group Freedom To Marry (FTM). It has been a fruitful, frustrating decade, a bizarre range of …

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LGBT Groups React To Virginia Stay

Equality Virginia It is disappointing that the Supreme Court stayed the 4th Circuit Court’s decision.  Lesbian and gay Virginians have waited long enough for the freedom to marry. Loving couples – and families – should not have to endure yet another standstill before their commitment to one another is recognized here in Virginia. Every day that this ruling is stayed, …

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Tweet Of The Day – Freedom To Marry

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Freedom To Marry Will Attempt To Break World Record For Arms-Linked Toast

Via press release: SKYY Vodka and Freedom to Marry, the campaign to win marriage equality nationwide, have partnered on #ToastToMarriage, a national campaign to draw together communities to raise awareness and funds for marriage equality in places where same-sex couples are excluded from marriage. The campaign will launch in Atlanta, Georgia on Monday, June 16th with an attempt at the …

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Freedom To Marry Head Evan Wolfson: We’ve Reached Critical Mass On Marriage

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LGBT Groups React To Pennsylvania Ruling

ACLU “The court, in a bell-ringing opinion, has explained in crystal clear language why the promises of our Constitution extend to all Pennsylvanians. We urge the commonwealth to take whatever steps are necessary to allow marriages to proceed and the celebrations to begin immediately. What a great day!” said Mark Aronchick of Hangley Aronchick Segal Pudlin & Schiller. The commonwealth …

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LGBT Groups React To Oregon Ruling

Oregon United “The importance of Judge McShane’s decision cannot be overemphasized,” said David Fidanque, executive director of the ACLU of Oregon. “Our federal Constitution does not allow any state – or its voters – to deny same sex couples equal protection under the law simply because of who they are and who they love. This type of discrimination is wrong …

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UTAH: New Marriage Ad Launches

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NORTH CAROLINA: Gay Couples Mark Ban Anniversary By Demanding Licenses

Two years ago today North Carolina’s Amendment One enshrined anti-LGBT bigotry into the state constitution. This morning gay couples are marking the anniversary by demanding marriage licenses in the state capital. Via Freedom To Marry: A lot has happened in North Carolina in the past two years: New relationships have formed. Children have been welcomed into the world. Families have …

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