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.

Video: Maggie Gallagher meets St. Peter

Posted on Sep 07, 2010 at 09:30 am

Watch this humorous but insightful animated account of what a conversation between Maggie Gallagher and St. Peter at the gates of heaven might be like.

Kerry Eleveld: ‘If you don’t support marriage equality, you don’t support equality.’

Posted on Sep 07, 2010 at 08:00 am

Kelly Eleveld discusses The Washington Post's endorsement of an anti-gay candidate: "When The Washington Post endorsed Delano Hunter for D.C. City Council it endorsed homophobia by justifying his stance against marriage equality.

Add Values to Rights to Achieve Marriage Equality

Posted on Sep 03, 2010 at 01:43 pm

Rev. Dr. Janet Edwards: "Rev. Janie Spahr's trial gives us all the opportunity to see that two men or two women, in their profound love and commitment for one another, can exemplify all the qualities we cherish in marriage."

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.

Voice for Equality: Miss Universe 2010, Jimena Navarrete

Posted on Sep 02, 2010 at 10:00 am

The recently-crowned Mexican Miss Universe, Jimena Navarrete, said in a post-pageant interview that, "I have many friends who are homosexual and I adore them. And they are equal folk: There is no reason we should want to set them aside, there is no reason why we shouldn't let them enjoy what they want to enjoy with their partner."

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."

Omaha newspaper to include wedding announcements of same-sex couples

Posted on Sep 01, 2010 at 09:30 am

The Omaha World-Herald, amid a firestorm of protest on Facebook, has decided to re-examine its practices and policies concerning wedding announcements.

'Celebrations' announcements regarding licensed legal weddings approved by states, engagements for legal weddings or anniversaries of legal marriages will be welcomed, regardless of the genders of the couple.

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.