Sen. Portman becomes first sitting GOP Senator to publicly support the freedom to marry
Posted on Mar 15, 2013 at 11:00 am
This week, Republican Senator Rob Portman from Ohio formally announced that he now supports the freedom to marry for same-sex couples. His announcement marks the first time that a sitting Republican Senator has publicly supported marriage for same-sex couples.
22 Senators endorse freedom to marry plank in 2012 National Democratic Platform
Posted on Mar 02, 2012 at 01:04 pm
Today, the Washington Blade reported that 22 senators have joined a growing number of politicians and advocates who have endorsed including a freedom to marry plank in the Democratic Party’s 2012 national platform.
Affairs of the Heart in the Heartland: Evan Wolfson to Speak in Midwest about Marriage
Posted on Jan 13, 2011 at 09:00 am
Freedom to Marry Executive Director Evan Wolfson will be speaking next week at both the University of Michigan and Ohio State University.
Close Ohio gay-rights vote mirrors national debate
Posted on Nov 29, 2010 at 09:30 am
Surveys repeatedly find that young adults, far more so than their elders, support the rights of gays to marry and serve openly in the military.
A Gallup poll earlier this year showed, for the first time, a majority of Americans saying same-sex relations were morally acceptable.
Record number of LGBT candidates elected to office
Posted on Nov 03, 2010 at 12:00 pm
The Gay & Lesbian Victory Fund today announced that more openly LGBT candidates won election to public office in the U.S. in 2010 than in any year in America’s history.
Editorial: Fair Courts in the Cross-Fire
Posted on Sep 30, 2010 at 08:15 am
The New York Times editorial board criticizes campaigns against justices around the country, including an anti-gay campaign against the three Iowa Supreme Court justices who ruled in favor of marriage for lesbian and gay couples in the state.
A New Kind Of Outing
Posted on Sep 29, 2010 at 02:30 pm
The Human Rights Campaign and the Courage Campaign this week launched a new Web site, NOMexposed.com, which provides details of some of the backers of the National Organization for Marriage.
Implicit referendums on the freedom to marry
Posted on Sep 14, 2010 at 12:00 pm
The few elections going on around the country this year that are substantially about the freedom to marry can be seen as a crude guide on the state of public opinion.
Sandra Day O’Connor lends support to Iowa pro-marriage equality justices
Posted on Sep 10, 2010 at 12:15 pm
Three of the Supreme Court justices who struck down an Ohio state law denying the freedom to marry are facing "retention votes" this year, and conservatives are using the ruling against them.
The targeting of the Iowa justices has brought together a group of distinguished legal scholars and jurists who have spoken out in support of the beleaguered justices, among them Sandra Day O’Connor.
Iowa voters reject divisive tactics, embrace fairness
Posted on Jun 10, 2010 at 11:20 am
Freedom to Marry's Public Engagement Program Manager, Megan Kinninger, discusses how Iowans, led by One Iowa, the lead LGBT state organization, continue to defend the freedom to marry.