Kathy & Carmah: Making Their Own Family
Posted on Feb 22, 2011 at 02:01 pm
Kathy Glass and Carmah Lawler have a good sense of humor about their age – and they say that sense has also helped keep them together for over 30 years. Kathy is 79 and Carmah is 82.
Letter to an Iowa Legislator from an Old Neighbor
Posted on Feb 07, 2011 at 03:54 pm
A lesbian from Iowa writes to a lawmaker co-sponsoring the state's anti-marriage amendment. But the writer isn't just a voter – she's the legislator's former neighbor and babysitter.
Barbara Bush, marriage equality & Obama
Posted on Feb 02, 2011 at 12:30 pm
Jonathan Capehart makes the case for President Obama conducting a "series of under-the-radar meetings to help him in the 'evolution' of his stance and thinking on marriage for same-sex couples."
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.
Freedom to Marry Commends Governor Quinn on Signing Civil Union Bill, Calls for Next Step
Posted on Jan 31, 2011 at 08:00 pm
A statement from Evan Wolfson, Executive Director of Freedom to Marry, on today’s signing of the Illinois Religious Freedom Protections and Civil Unions Act by Governor Quinn.
Video: Iowa Democratic Chair urges lawmakers not to be distracted by marriage ban
Posted on Jan 31, 2011 at 02:30 pm
Retaining the jobs we have and creating new ones, that's what Iowa's Democratic Chair says the state's lawmakers should be focusing on, not banning marriage equality.
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."
RFK Jr. for N.Y. Marriage Equality
Posted on Jan 28, 2011 at 09:30 am
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. joined the fight for marriage equality in a video released Thursday for the Human Rights Campaign’s New Yorkers for Marriage Equality series.
Marriage equality arguments: This is about rights, speakers say
Posted on Jan 26, 2011 at 05:00 pm
A passionate debate took place at a legislative meeting in Iowa on Monday about a proposal that could ultimately eliminate the freedom to marry in Iowa.
Maryland lawmakers expected to act on marriage equality
Posted on Jan 26, 2011 at 12:00 pm
Maryland appears poised this year to expand the rights of same-sex couples, with the state legislature considering proposals on full marriage benefits as well as a compromise plan that would establish civil unions.
"This is about loving couples," Sean Eldridge, political director for the New York-based advocacy group Freedom to Marry, told lawmakers and supporters Tuesday at an event in Annapolis to promote gay marriage legislation.