This is just plain old unfair! Chief Warrant Officer Charlie Morgan and her wife Karen describe their situation best in the video and Freedom to Marry and SLDN explain in the press release below how Karen would not be entitled to survivor’s benefits upon CW2 Morgan’s death. Charlie said today:
An LGBT advocacy group fighting for marriage equality nationwide is enlisting the help of a key political demographic to help further its cause: young conservatives.
The campaign, called “Familia es Familia” (”Family is Family”) was announced on July 8 at the annual conference of the National Council of La Raza in Las Vegas. Freedom to Marry, a nationwide coalition that campaigns for marriage equality, is providing seed funding for the project, which also has a financial commitment from the Gill Foundation.
The campaign, called “Familia es Familia” (”Family is Family”) was announced on July 8 at the annual conference of the National Council of La Raza in Las Vegas. Freedom to Marry, a nationwide coalition that campaigns for marriage equality, is providing seed funding for the project, which also has a financial commitment from the Gill Foundation.
A taboo is broken.
As support for marriage equality continues to grow, a significant number of conservative hold-outs still insist that marriage must remain between one man and one woman.
As support for marriage equality continues to grow, a significant number of conservative hold-outs still insist that marriage must remain between one man and one woman. But instead of simply writing off Republicans, the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights group Freedom to Marry today begins a campaign to spread the message that support for marriage equality is consistent with conservative principles. To do so, Freedom to Marry is tapping a group on the right already trending away from the GOP traditional position: young conservatives.
The country’s leading Latino advocacy organizations have endorsed a first-of-its-kind public service campaign, aimed at helping families understand – and accept – their Latino sons and daughters, brothers and sisters who are gay or LGBT.
More than 20 Latino civil rights organizations announced on Sunday that they have endorsed a campaign designed to bolster acceptance of LGBT-specific issues among Hispanics.
The Facebook-watching world was surprised the day following the company’s IPO when co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg married his girlfriend Priscilla Chan.
Facebook has introduced a new Timeline feature that allows same-sex couples to declare their marriage status on the site with icons that best reflect the relationship, rather than the standard icon of a bride and a groom used for straight couples.
Momentum for marriage equality in the Latino community continued Saturday when the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), the nation’s oldest and largest Latino civil rights and advocacy group, passed a resolution at its annual convention.
Chris Hughes and Sean Eldridge were married Saturday at their home in Garrison, N.Y. William J. Corbett, a retired village justice of Floral Park, N.Y., officiated.
A key House Democrat supports providing full military and veterans benefits to same-sex couples.
President Obama’s interview last month announcing his shift on gay marriage was worth parsing for more than its political implications. “I’ve always been adamant that gay and lesbian Americans should be treated fairly and equally,” Obama said. Then, adopting a new tone, he disavowed his earlier position that “civil unions would be sufficient” in providing benefits like hospital-visitation rights.
Freedom to Marry (FTM) sparked its campaign to win the right to same-sex marriage in New York State last year with a series of short videos featuring charming, engaging gay couples–not least among them George Constantinou and Farid Ali Lancheros–that put a human face on the issue and helped insure the movement’s success.
Freedom to Marry (FTM) sparked its campaign to win the right to same-sex marriage in New York State last year with a series of short videos featuring charming, engaging gay couples–not least among them George Constantinou and Farid Ali Lancheros–that put a human face on the issue and helped insure the movement’s success.
The past few months have brought surging momentum to our campaign to win the freedom to marry. From the President’s heartfelt and powerful embrace to the unanimous federal appellate ruling that the so-called Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) is unconstitutional, we continue to make huge progress along the Roadmap to Victory, Freedom to Marry’s national strategy. But until all loving, committed couples can share in the freedom to marry nationwide, the work is not yet done. And the necessary work won’t just do itself.
When he talks privately to other corporate executives, John Taft says he's noticed two things. First, he finds that almost none of Minnesota's business leaders support the marriage amendment. That amendment would add to the state constitution, "only a union between one man and one woman will be recognized as a marriage in Minnesota." But second, Taft finds that almost no CEOs are eager to take a public stand on a controversial issue such as same-sex marriage, wary of seeing their companies caught up in a culture war.
A new study that finds children of a gay or lesbian parent may be more likely to have social and emotional problems has sparked controversy on both sides of the same-sex marriage debate.