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Is sex evil unless it leads directly to babies? Is marriage only legitimate if it fosters offspring, or is it also for intimacy? The U.S. Supreme Court decisions issued three decisions between June 7, 1965 and Jan. 22, 1973 that collectively gave the answer: No. Show More Summary
LGBT Groups Praise President Obama's Inaugural Call For Full Equality
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. Show More Summary
IS YOUR MAYOR ON THIS LIST?
By JONATHAN WOLFMAN Last year, not long after several U.S. mayors began Mayors For the Freedom to Marry I shared the list with you. The list has grown from the original 70 or so to nearly 300. As more state legislatures and voters see that the justice, social, and economic benefits to equality outweigh increasingly narrowing [...]
Mayors' Marriage Equality Group Grows Threefold in First Year
Mayors for the Freedom to Marry celebrates its first anniversary with 291 members. read more
Takei on Foster, mayors on marriage, GOProud
Gay actor George Takei defends Jodie Foster from gay critics, year anniversary for Mayors for Freedom to Marry, conservative gay GOProud didn’t endorse gay marriage until today, more.
Washington’s National Cathedral To Perform Same Sex Weddings
The freedom of all Americans to marry without consideration of their sexual orientation took a giant step forward today with the news that the National Cathedral in Washington, DC will soon begin to perform same sex weddings. According...Show More Summary
House GOP To Re-Fund DOMA Defense
In one of the first actions of the 113th Congress, which begins today, the House GOP is pushing to reauthorize the funding for the defense of DOMA. Reactions below. Freedom To Marry "It's truly disheartening that, on a day of new beginnings...Show More Summary
Ringing in 2013 with the freedom to marry
What a way to start 2013! Beginning on Dec. 29, same-sex couples were able to marry in Maine, and in Maryland couples began weddings on Jan. 1. On Nov. 6, Maine became the first state to allow same-sex couples to receive a marriage license through a popular vote of the people. Maryland also passed marriage equality [...]
Laura W. Murphy: African Americans Are Key To The Success Of The LGBT Movement
As 2012 draws to a close and I reflect on the historic year that was, one of the things that I am most proud of is the role that African Americans played in helping to bring the freedom to marry for committed and loving same-sex couples to my home state of Maryland.
Guns Don’t Kill People, Freedom Kills People?
You don’t give kids a lot of freedom. Kids are too impressionable and vulnerable for freedom. You don’t give a 7-year-old the right to buy alcohol, get married, or drive their bike too far from the neighborhood (let alone drive a car) because the consequences would be catastrophic.
NOM’s Peculiar Definition of “Victory”
Today, just two weeks after voters in Washington, Maine, Maryland and Minnesota affirmed their support of the freedom to marry for same-sex couples by rejecting NOM’s anti-gay ballot measure campaigns, National Organization for Marriage (NOM) released a video extolling its “Top Ten Marriage Victories of 2012?. The question is, what victories? Here is NOM’s list.
Seattle’s Catholic Archbishop Finds Solace in Washington’s Freedom To Marry Law
In the wake of Washington state voters approving the state's new civil marriage and religious freedom law, which allows same-sex couples to marry, Archbishop J. Peter Sartain has summarized archdiocesan policy regarding same-sex marriage.
Evan Wolfson: Freedom To Marry's Top 10 Moments For Marriage In 2012
The clock is ticking on turning our 2012 momentum into the next wave of wins that can help create the climate that maximizes our chances of winning in the Supreme Court, but let's savor and take inspiration from Freedom to Marry's top 10 marriage moments in 2012.
Uruguay's House Overwhelmingly Approves Marriage Equality in 81-18 Vote; Senate Has Votes to Pass
Uruguay's House has overwhelmingly passed a marriage equality bill and prospects look excellent that it will join the nations of the world which offer the freedom to marry to its citizens. From Rex Wockner and Andres Duques (at Blabbeando): Eighty-one...
Britain's Conservatives Back The Freedom To Marry
In the Sunday Telegraph yesterday, a group of Tory leaders in Britain reiterated their strong support for marriage for all: The group, which unites under the slogan “Freedom to Marry”, contains some of the party’s biggest beasts, including Boris Johnson,...
Tories Launch 'Freedom To Marry,' Say Marriage 'Should Be Open To All'
Just a few days after British PM David Cameron said "I don't want gay people to be excluded from a great institution [of marriage]," 19 equalliy powerful, equally conservative politicians, including London Mayor Boris Johnson, Education Secretary Michael Gove and...
Nevada Sends Another Marriage Case to the Supreme Court: Will It Affect DOMA, Prop 8 Decisions?
BY ARI EZRA WALDMAN Last week, a federal judge in Nevada ruled against Lambda Legal's challenge to the state's ban on the freedom to marry in a case called Sevcik v. Sandoval (Ms. Sevcik, with her partner, Mary Baranovich (both...
PHOTOS: A Seattle Couple’s Gay Lumberjack Wedding
Corianton Hale and Keith Bacon shared their wedding album with Freedom to Marry in the lead-up to Washington’s very first same-sex marriages under Referendum 74. Cori and Keith got married this August in an elaborate, three-day wedding at the Sleeping Lady Mountain Resort in Leavenworth, Washington. “The resort looks and feels like an upscale summer camp, [...]
Kim Kardashian Prisoner In Kris Humphries' Wedding Cage?! Kris Calls Marriage "Fraud"!
She's a birdie who wants her freedom… freedom to marry and make tons of $$$ off of her inevitable, high-profile wedding to Kanye West, DUH! Kim Kardashian is reportedly feeling handcuffed in her unwanted marriage to Kris Humphries, and girl wants to get divorced like, MONTHS ago! Kimmy's attorney explained to an L.A. Supreme Court judge Wednesday [...]
Illinois Marriage Vote By January?
Via press release from Lambda Legal: Today plaintiff couples in Darby v. Orr and Lazaro v. Orr, the lawsuits brought by Lambda Legal and the ACLU of Illinois seeking the freedom to marry for same-sex couples in Illinois, met with legislators to urge them to vote in favor of a bill ending the ban on marriage for same-sex couples in Illinois. Show More Summary
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