Good As You: Freedom To Marry Roundup
02/13/2012
Evolved already? Freedom to Marry puts pointed question to 2012 Dems
Freedom to Marry is pushing the Democratic party to add marriage equality to its 2012 platform: Today, we're excited to launch our Democrats: Say I Do campaign, calling on the national Democratic Party to include a plank supporting gay and...
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01/20/2012
City haul: Impressive (and growing) list of mayors for marriage equality
Freedom to Marry has released the full list of the 80+ American mayors who have come out for marriage equality. Go see if yours is on the list (and if he or she is not, then call or write to...
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01/18/2012
Freedom to Mayor-y: 70+ city leaders take principled stand
Ay a big press conference scheduled for this Friday, the mayors of over seventy American cities will join up with the Freedom To Marry organization to announce their support for marriage equality. The Wall Street Journal reports: The mayors of...
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11/30/2011
Video: Evan Wolfson hopes to keep North Carolinians from making horrid mistake
Soon enough, Schubert Flint Public Affairs, Maggie Gallagher, and all of the usual suspects will swoop into North Carolina and fill voters heads with all kinds of contrived, fear-mongered myths. Before all that nonsense: Freedom To Marry's Evan Wolfson speaks...
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06/28/2011
Audio: Steve Malzberg shows Evan Wolfson what radio condescension sounds like, squeezes in some marriage talk too
Especially listen around 5:40 when, while in an interview where he presses the Freedom to Marry head to defend his own marriage in every way possible (including against incest comparisons), Steve completely flips out when Evan quite simply asks him...
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06/13/2011
The beauty of basic fairness: LUSH cosmetics partners with/for Freedom to Marry
Handmade cosmetics company LUSH has teamed up with Freedom To Marry for a number of pro-equality initiatives. In addition to issuing a strong statement in favor of the employees, customers and communities who are affected by crude bias, the scented...
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05/03/2011
Video: New Yorkers Richard and John are ready to retire (this tired conversation)
Richard Dorr and John Mace have been together 61 years. 0 of those years have come with an anywhere-close-to-equal honoring of their long commitment: Haven't They Waited Long Enough? [Freedom To Marry]
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02/09/2011
Video: Freedom to Matter
Why Marriage Matters
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01/10/2011
At least one 'Economist' agrees: Maggie should start stashing away some of her gay marriage profit
Just like a growing body of the public, the courts, and fair-minded politicos, The Economist's readers and editors have determined that Evan Wolfson's arguments in favor of the Freedom To Marry greatly outweigh Maggie Gallagher's dogged attempts to NOM equality's...
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11/12/2010
Audio: Brian Brown, Sean Eldridge, judges unfairly targeted for simply doing their jobs
Considering what we've heard from her in the past, we're not surprised that Fox News' Lauren Green seems to obviously side with Brian Brown in the following segment. Like, for one example, when she follows a point about gays not...
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07/06/2010
Video: So near Lady Liberty, so far from her full promise
The fact that we don't perform marriages on an equal basis here in the Empire State is nothing short of an embarrassment. But when it comes to our national political figures' public support for equality, it can sometimes feel like...
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11/10/2009
Video: Evan vs. anything but even
- She uses the "this gay marriage thing" line yet again. TWICE! - She uses her other overplayed talking points, like "the two great halves of humanity" - She dances around the issue of civil unions and domestic partnerships, even...
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07/29/2009
Video: Freedom to gay marry
Yesterday morning, we took up the topic of using "marriage equality" rather than "gay marriage." Now our pals at Freedom To Marry have put that discussion into handy video form: But by all means, feel free to keep calling Gatorade...
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05/27/2009
Activist grudges: Rights groups say ixnay on the awsuitlays
Yesterday we learned that Theodore B. Olson and David Boies are forming an odd alliance in order to take Prop 8 to federal court. Today the ACLU, GLAD, GLAAD, NCLR, Lambda Legal, Equality Federation, Freedom To Marry, the Human Rights...
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04/03/2009
Because it's not a victory until press releases tell you so..
Iowa. The national organizations weigh in: “This is a truly historic day for Iowa and a proud day for every American who believes in the promise of equal rights and fairness for all,” said Human Rights Campaign President Joe Solmonese....
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02/12/2009
Lincoln: Would he have thrown tall hat into marriage ring?
In honor of Freedom to Marry Day/Week/Year/Decade/Millenium, Evan Wolfson has penned a provocative piece probing into Abe Lincoln's theoretical support for his own personal freedom to marry Todd rather than Mary Todd. Now you be a dear and go give...
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02/10/2009
Freedom to (get up early and take a bus, subway, or cab to fight for your right to) marry
All over the nation this week and into next, gay allies will be celebrating Freedom to Marry Week with a reasoned, principled protests. But we, being the provincial 'mos that we are, are now going to promote the one closest...
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Prop 8 is wrong, to the letter
People in love with both their country and their partners. Reasoned arguments stifled by irrational fear. Onward we push, refusing to be bullied into silence. Peacefully protesting wrongheaded decisions, rulings, or ballot initiatives. Only thing? Our principled stands are misrepresented...
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02/12/2008
Even-seeking Evan on status of Freedom's fight
Freedom to Marry's Evan Wolfson has written a thoughtful new piece on the battle for gay marriage marriage equality and the semantics behind it. Go have a read: Today is Freedom to Marry Day – Just Don't Say "Gay Marriage"!...
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08/17/2007
In which we throw you to the Wolfson
Freedom To Marry's Evan Wolfson is a veritable encyclopedia of gay nuptial knowledge. But not like those 18 volume sets of encyclopedias that, if you're over the age of 25, you probably remember being sold at the supermarket. No, Evan...
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02/08/2007
Video: Freedom to Marry vs. Justification to Discriminate
Earlier this week, we told you about an initiative in Washington that would turn the common argument that "marriage is about children" on its head, by requiring that heterosexual couples DO procreate in order to keep their marriage intact. Well,...
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07/25/2006
Extra, extra: LGBT groups launch newsie campaign
Starting today, a joint ad from the National Gay and Lesbian Taskforce, Freedom to Marry, and the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) will begin running in fifty newspapers across the country, in which more than 60 civic, religious,...
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