Freedom to marry law gives a boost to wedding business
Posted on Oct 18, 2010 at 02:00 pm
Wedding businesses were just as excited as equal rights groups when marriage equality became legal in the Granite State earlier this year.
It opened up a new market during one of the worst economic periods the country has ever seen.
Marriage Equality: Connecticut does well by doing good
Posted on Oct 15, 2010 at 02:00 pm
Connecticut's landmark freedom to marry decision has turned out to be a boon for its wedding industry.
Freedom to marry law an economic boon for CT
Posted on Oct 11, 2010 at 01:00 pm
On Oct. 10, 2008, the Connecticut Supreme Court legalized marriage for same-sex couples, and since then an estimated 2,500 gay and lesbian couples have traveled here to be joined, generating what one economist calculates has been a $40 million stimulus for restaurants, hotels, wedding photographers and caterers.
Gallagher, Wolfson debate the freedom to marry
Posted on Oct 07, 2010 at 09:00 am
Evan Wolfson ’78, founder and executive director of Freedom to Marry, and Maggie Gallagher ’82, former president of the National Organization for Marriage, joined about 250 students and guests in Sudler Hall for a YPU debate titled “Resolved: Same-Sex Couples Should be Allowed to Marry.”
Wolfson and Gallagher debate the Freedom to Marry Wed. at Yale
Posted on Oct 05, 2010 at 09:45 am
Freedom to Marry's Evan Wolfson and Maggie Gallagher, of NOM and Institute for Marriage, will debate the following: "Resolved: Same-sex couples should be allowed to marry" on Wednesday at Yale.
Opinion: Outside agitators
Posted on Sep 29, 2010 at 12:00 pm
Tim Rutten criticizes out-of-state groups and individuals, such as the anti-gay National Organization for Marriage and prominent Utah Mormon, Alan Ashton, that have inserted themselves in campaigns against marriage equality in Iowa and California.
Poll: Rhode Island voters support the freedom to marry
Posted on Aug 19, 2010 at 06:55 am
The majority of Rhode Island voters support legal recognition of the freedom to marry in the state for the first time.
Hey, America, stop changing the marriage equality goalposts
Posted on Jul 19, 2010 at 10:26 am
Marriage equality has seen more ups and downs than a soccer game, because America's right wing keeps changing the goalposts.
How the GOP is saving the freedom to marry
Posted on Jul 15, 2010 at 10:30 am
Joshua Green writes about several Republican appointed judges who have had roles in advancing marriage equality: "This makes the Republican pedigrees of the judges moving the freedom to marry toward legality all the more striking, particularly in how it contrasts with conservative outcries about judicial activism."
Voice for Equality: Scott Stringer
Posted on Jul 11, 2010 at 08:00 am
Scott Stringer is a New York Democratic politician and the current Borough President of Manhattan. In 2005, he entered the race to succeed C. Virginia Fields as Manhattan Borough President. On September 13, 2005, he won the Democratic primary against 9 other candidates and was later elected in the November general election. He took office as Borough President on January 1, 2006.
In July of 2010, Mr. Stringer and his fiancée, Elyse Buxbaum, announced they would wed in Connecticut in what they described as a protest of New York’s failure to legalize the freedom to marry.