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UPDATE: Video interviews with some of the first couples as they apply for a marriage license. Same-sex couples can start applying for marriage licenses Wednesday in Washington. Supporters say couples planned to line up before the city's marriage bureau opened at 8:30 a.m., and some officials were expecting 200 or more people. Washington will be the sixth place in the nation where marriages of gay couples can take place. Because of a mandatory waiting period, however, couples won't actually be able to marry in the District of Columbia until March 9. Connecticut, Iowa, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Vermont currently issue licenses to same-sex couples.
Read MoreStatement from Evan Wolfson, Executive Director of Freedom to Marry: The Freedom to Marry Arrives in D.C. "A Significant Victory for the National Movement"
Read MoreThe first same-sex couples to apply for a marriage license in Washington, D.C. are standing in line now. After a three day waiting period, couples will be able to pick up their license and have their marriage performed beginning Tuesday, March 9th. Here are profiles of a few of the committed couples who will finally be able to share in the responsibilities, protections, and commitment of marriage.
Read MoreHere are the first pictures from Washington, D.C. on the first day same-sex couples can apply for a marriage license. More photos and updates will be posted throughout the day.
Read MoreOn eve of marriage equality in the District, anti-equality activists have asked the Supreme Court to block implementation of the new freedom to marry law. Bishop Harry Jackson, along with others opposed to marriage equality coming to Washington, filed a last-minute request at the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday, March 1, seeking to stop the Religious Freedom and Civil Marriage Equality Amendment Act of 2009 from becoming law on March 3 so that he can proceed with his referendum effort.
Read MoreWill your next Governor sign the freedom to marry into law? Raise your voice with the candidates for Governor to call the Rhode Island legislature to action. Bring your family, grab your signs and join state leaders tomorrow in demanding full equality for ALL Rhode Island families.
Read MoreD.C. Superior Court officials are preparing for what they expect to be a flood of same-sex couples descending on the courthouse Wednesday to apply for marriage licenses. Wednesday is the first day that same-sex couples in the District can apply for licenses in the marriage office, in Room 4485.
Read MoreFreedom to Marry Voice for Equality, John Corvino, responds to comments by opponents of the freedom to marry. He points out that though many opposed to marriage equality want to cling to a strict definition of marriage, "...marriage does not lend itself to a pithy definition. Whatever marriage is, its definition won’t be like, 'A triangle is a three-sided plane figure.'”
Read MoreGay and lesbian couples will soon be able to marry in Washington, but the debate over the freedom to marry has sounded different here, with references to interracial marriage and Martin Luther King. Over the past year, both sides have courted the support of Washington's black community, a majority of the city's 600,000 residents and one mistakenly perceived as nearly always opposed to marriage for gay couples.
Read MoreAfter receiving invitations to a few weddings of gay couples, one man asks himself the classic question, "What would Jesus do?" and searches the New Testament for answers.
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