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Following DC: What the Freedom to Marry in the Capital Means Nationwide

By Evan Wolfson, Executive Director, Freedom to Marry

Today, surrounded by friends and family, the first same-sex couples in Washington D.C. to receive marriage licenses are celebrating their legal marriages.

D.C. now officially joins the five states and eight countries that have ended exclusion from marriage. Marriage in our nation's capital marks a significant victory not only for D.C. couples who no longer need to leave home to secure the protections and responsibilities of marriage, but also for the national movement to win the freedom to marry.

The Freedom to Marry emerges as an Issue in Congressional Debate on “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”

Equal treatment of legally married gay couples has emerged as an issue in the debate in Congress over ending the military's ban on open homosexuality in the ranks.

"Gay people serving in the military, defending our country, should have the same rules and same opportunities as any other Americans, no more and no less," Evan Wolfson, Executive Director of Freedom to Marry, told The Washington Times.

Nearly half of all Americans live where there is some recognition of same-sex couples

Counting states in which the freedom to marry is legal, states in which there are recognized civil unions or domestic partnerships, states that offer itemized rights to same-sex couples, states that recognize marriages of same-sex couples legally performed elsewhere and states in which individual counties and cities provide local recognition and benefits, nearly half of all Americans live where there is some form of official notice of same-sex couples.

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