Good As You: Freedom To Marry Roundup
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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