Blog | Freedom to Marry

Report: Marriages of same-sex couples strikingly similar to other marriages

Posted on Sep 08, 2010 at 10:30 am

Iowa’s 18-month experience with marriages of same-sex couples has revealed striking similarities to traditional marriage and no discernible harm to it, according to an IowaWatch study.

Voice for Equality: Seth MacFarlane

Posted on Sep 07, 2010 at 11:00 am

Writer and producer Seth MacFarlane: "They'll [marriage equality opponents] just have to sulk in a corner and accept the fact that gays will be able to marry each other. Every civil-rights conflict—black people, women—comes to an end in the right way."

Leslie Gabel-Brett: Obama Stand Does Gay Americans No Favors

Posted on Sep 03, 2010 at 10:30 am

Lambda Legal's Leslie J. Gabel-Brett criticizes President Obama for what some see as a lack of progress on LGBT-related issues.

Court won’t force CA Officials to defend Prop 8

Posted on Sep 03, 2010 at 09:00 am

The 3rd District Court of Appeal on Wednesday denied a conservative legal group’s request to force Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Attorney General Jerry Brown to defend voter-approved Proposition 8.

Jonathan Merritt: Is Prop 8 fight the culture wars’ last stand?

Posted on Sep 02, 2010 at 08:30 am

Jonathan Merritt discusses shifts in the demographics of those for and against the freedom to marry: "If current trends among religious Americans and the younger generation continue, the current battle over Proposition 8 might just be the beginning of the end for the culture wars as we’ve known them."

Voice for Equality: Roger Ebert

Posted on Sep 01, 2010 at 03:00 pm

In the August 27, 2010 entry of his Journal in the "Chicago Sun-Times", film critic Roger Ebert makes a case for the freedom to marry by telling a personal story of his mother supporting a lesbian couple in their desire to get married back in the 1970s: "Public opinion is perceived to be shifting on the topic [marriage equality]. It seems odd to me that on this issue, Barack Obama is more conservative than Dick Cheney, George Bush and my mother."

Video: George Clooney - “People will see Prop 8 as product of ‘archaic’ time”

Posted on Sep 01, 2010 at 08:00 am

When asked backstage at the Emmy Awards what he thought about the recent ruling against Proposition 8, George Clooney commented that the process of change is slow but that "People will look back at this period of time in history and think of it as an archaic time."

Shifting attitudes on gay rights extend around globe, experts say

Posted on Aug 20, 2010 at 12:00 pm

"Often courts will make decisions that are predictors of what public opinion is going to be a few years from now," says Brian Powell, an Indiana University sociology professor.

"Public attitudes don't change really quickly, but this [the freedom to marry] is one that's changing really, really quickly," Powell said.