VIDEO: Why It’s Time for Marriage in Rhode Island
Posted on Mar 09, 2011 at 04:36 pm
Senate hearings on several marriage bills are being held tomorrow – find out how you can help.
New Hampshire Panel Puts off Marriage Repeal Bills
Posted on Mar 03, 2011 at 10:20 am
The House Judiciary Committee voted unanimously to hold on to a pair bills aiming to take away the freedom to marry in the state, avoiding a repeal that would be would be hugely unpopular with the public.
Maryland Senate Passes Marriage Bill
Posted on Feb 24, 2011 at 05:31 pm
Freedom to Marry Field Director Regina Clemente writes about all the hard work by our supporters and partners that has gotten us this far – and what you can do to help make sure that the bill becomes law.
Creating Change: Minnesota and Beyond
Posted on Feb 03, 2011 at 01:25 pm
How Freedom to Marry is working for marriage at the country's biggest conference on gay issues – and how exclusion from marriage is affecting a Minnesota couple who have been together for nearly four decades.
Two Iowa Senate democrats say loyalty to Gronstal trumps support for marriage amendment
Posted on Feb 02, 2011 at 10:00 am
A handful of Senate Democrats who would be the deciding votes on an amendment to ban marriage equality said Tuesday they won't join minority Republicans to force a vote this year.
Barring a change of heart, that means the effort to allow a public vote on a constitutional amendment to ban the freedom to marry is dead in the Iowa Legislature this session.
Widower of gay Marine shown respect by Naval Academy, thanks to marriage
Posted on Feb 01, 2011 at 01:14 pm
Though military officials were skeptical to hear the wishes of a widower of a gay Marine, they treated him as next of kin once he sent them a copy of his marriage license.
Now Is the Time in Rhode Island
Posted on Jan 31, 2011 at 03:05 pm
Freedom to Marry's Senior Consultant Marc Solomon is on the ground in Rhode Island, where the state legislature will vote on a marriage bill in the coming weeks.
Eric Hartley: Still waiting for ‘the real thing’
Posted on Jan 31, 2011 at 11:30 am
While many gay or lesbian couples from Maryland got married in Washington, D.C., after that city legalized same-sex marriage last year, Barry Kessler and David Hankey have waited. The Arnold couple was a bit wary of a D.C. marriage. The Maryland attorney general says the state can recognize out-of-state marriages, but what if it didn't for some reason?
But the real reason they're waiting is less legal and more profound: They want "the real thing," as Hankey put it.
Suits on Marriage Equality may force Administration to take a Stand
Posted on Jan 31, 2011 at 09:30 am
President Obama has balanced on a political tightrope for two years over the so-called Defense of Marriage Act, the contentious 1996 law barring federal recognition of marriages of same-sex couples.
Now, two new federal lawsuits threaten to snap that rope out from under him.
Bob Kerr: Life gets better when a daughter gets married
Posted on Jan 28, 2011 at 12:00 pm
Bob Kerr reports on Tony and Sylvia DeLuca will go to the State House to testify in support of the bill legalizing marriage equality in Rhode Island.
Kerr: "They attended the wedding of their daughter Luisa to her partner Brenda Harvey last June in Provincetown, Mass., where marriage is as it should be — a matter of love and commitment between two people."