The Thorons - Don’t Eliminate Marriage For Anyone
Posted on Sep 24, 2008 at 04:04 pm
September 22, 2008
PFLAG (and Freedom to Marry)'s Sam and Julia Thoron offer a heartfelt message about their daughter, Liz, whose right to marry the person she loves will be eliminated if Prop 8 passes. [Link]
First TV ad in ballot war features Sam Thoron
Posted on Sep 23, 2008 at 11:06 am
September 23, 2008
The No on Proposition 8 campaign launched its first television ad, which features former PFLAG President Sam Thoron and his wife, Julia, speaking about how the initiative would take away their gay daughter's ability to marry. [Link]
California’s Prop 8 would end marriage equality
Posted on Sep 22, 2008 at 12:08 pm
September 18, 2008
View a video encouraging people to vote against discrimination and against Prop. 8 in California. (Link)
Hollywood celebrities support the freedom to marry in ad campaign
Posted on Sep 04, 2008 at 02:00 pm
September 4, 2008
"When I got married," Tyne Daly recalls of her marriage to African-American actor Georg Stanford Brown, "my marriage was illegal in seven states in this country...Government can't dictate hearts and minds. But it can decide law, and when laws [change], other things change." [Link]
VIDEO: Evan Wolfson discusses the landscape for marriage
Posted on Aug 26, 2008 at 02:10 pm
August 26, 2008
On June 24, 2008 Evan Wolfson was the guest speaker at the New York office of Dickstein Shapiro LLP. He discussed the landscape for marriage in 2008, and explained why the California Supreme Court's carefully-worded decision affirming the freedom to marry for gay and lesbian couples is one of the most important milestones in gay civil rights history. [Link]
TV ad backing marriage equality not about Prop. 8
Posted on Aug 18, 2008 at 09:26 am
August 16, 2008
"Of course, it has a viewpoint," Evan Wolfson said of the commercial. "But it is not a political viewpoint." [Ed. note: The ad started running in the fall of 2007, well before the state Supreme Court decision.] The ad, he said, "is untethered to any political moment, election year, political decision or vote. It is all about asking people how they would feel if they or their loved ones couldn't marry who they love." [Link]
PageOneQ’s Mike Rogers appears on Fox News to defend gays’ freedom to marry
Posted on Jul 08, 2008 at 09:18 am
July 7, 2008
Activist Mike Rogers discussed the recent decision in California during a recent panel discussion. [Link]
“No Reason” But “Just Because”
Posted on Jun 09, 2008 at 02:50 pm
June 9, 2008
"I’m all kinds of late on this, I know, but I was struck by this clip from Bill O’Reilly’s show, in which he and a guest can’t come up with a single reason to oppose same-sex marriage." [Link]
Bill O’Reilly Runs Out Of Reasons to Oppose Marriage Equality
Posted on May 29, 2008 at 10:11 am
May 28, 2008
Bill O'Reilly asked Family Law Attorney Don Schweitzer for some reasons why marriage equality is not good for the state of California. For all practical purposes, he couldn't come up with any. (Link)
BLOG: Bill Clinton + DOMA = revisionism
Posted on Mar 27, 2008 at 03:05 pm
March 27, 2008
Along with a recent video clip of Bill Clinton feeling the heat from students grilling him about his signature on the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996, Pam offers a historical perspective on DOMA and what was going on at the time of the law signing, contrary to what Clinton claims. [Link]