Tag Archives: Freedom To Marry

Freedom To Marry In his second Inaugural today, President Obama traced the moral arc from Seneca Falls to Selma to Stonewall, and rightly exalted the struggle for the freedom to marry as part of America’s moral commitment to equality, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Freedom to Marry applauds our president and the moral leadership he has shown, the moral …

The New York Times reports on Kathryn Lehman, a recently out Republican lawyer who in 1996 played a role in the creation of DOMA. Today, Ms. Lehman, 53, no longer has a husband, and no longer identifies as straight. And she is a lobbyist for Freedom to Marry, which is devoted to overturning the very law she helped write, the …

Today is Veteran’s Day.

Courtesy of Spin Cycle, this week’s Swag Tuesday prize is two tickets to Freedom To Love Now!, a marriage equality concert starring tons of popular performers including NYC-based artists Justin Bond and Rufus Wainwright. The concert takes place on October 30th at the Beacon Theater on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. Get tickets here. Freedom To Love Now! is a concert …

And how many of them are voting for Romney?

Clip description: Gay and lesbian service members risk their lives to protect ours while their families are denied the critical protections of marriage because of the so-called Defense of Marriage Act. This video is part of Freedom to Serve, Freedom to Marry, a new multimedia persuasion campaign to highlight the stories of military families harmed by DOMA. The campaign is …

Four-time Tony Award winner.

Freedom To Marry and the Human Rights Campaign have issued a joint letter to Cardinal Timothy Dolan, asking that Catholic bishops end their support of NOM. Don’t hold your breath, fellas.

“NOM’s wedge-strategy memos detail its campaign to funnel money to a handful of African-American clergy in order to attack gay couples and, appallingly, discredit the strong and clear voice of those African-American civil rights champions, such as John Lewis, Julian Bond, and Coretta Scott King, who have stood up for the freedom to marry and the equal civil rights of …

Via press release: Today Freedom to Marry announced the Win More States Fund to raise at least $3 million dollars, every penny of which will be spent directly on the work of winning in five 2012 marriage battleground states: Maine, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New Jersey, and Washington. “Winning marriage at the ballot in even one state will take away the …

Via press release from Freedom To Marry: Today Freedom to Marry announced that in under six weeks its Mayors for the Freedom to Marry campaign has more than doubled, from 80 to 175 participating mayors. In addition, Freedom to Marry released a video of 13 mayors talking about why they’ve joined the campaign to talk about why marriage matters, and …

Lambda Legal Today New Jersey’s General Assembly rose above the political fray and did right by New Jersey’s families. Governor Christie should follow their lead – but if he doesn’t, legislators should continue to stand for equality and override his veto. Marriage equality in New Jersey is a matter of when – not if. New Jersey should choose to join …

Via press release: From now through the September convention, Freedom to Marry will organize to secure inclusion of a freedom to marry plank in the party platform. Freedom to Marry’s Democrats: Say I Do campaign will enlist Democratic party leaders, elected officials, activists, and voters to make the case to the Platform Drafting Committee in support of the freedom to …

Yesterday morning Freedom To Marry’s Evan Wolfson wiped the floor with NOM president Brian Brownshirt during an appearance on a local NYC politics show. I caught this live and was happily tweeting my glee at Wolfson’s performance. (Via – Good As You)

Freedom To Marry and the Human Rights Campaign have launched a board coalition of organizations who are uniting in the battle to repeal DOMA. Here’s the list so far. Alliance for Justice, American Civil Liberties Union, American Federation of Government Employees, American Federation of Musicians, American Federation of State, County & Municipal Employees, American Federation of Teachers, Americans for Democratic …