They had a tremendous impact. Not just because they underscore that this is a civil rights question, but they're making it clear this is a question of fairness that affects real families, including Latinos and African Americans — many of whom are the most vulnerable when discriminatorily excluded from marriage.
"Evan Wolfson" is an American attorney and gay rights advocate. He is the founder and president of Freedom to Marry, a group favoring same-sex marriage in the United States. Wolfson, who many consider to be the father and leader of the same-sex marriage movement, authored the book Why Marriage Matters: America, Equality, and Gay People's Right to Marry, which Time Out New York magazine called, "Perhaps the most important gay-marriage primer ever written..." He was listed as one of Time (magazine)/Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People in the World. He has taught as an adjunct professor at Columbia Law School, Rutgers School of Law—Newark/Rutgers Law School, and Whittier Law School and argued before the United States Supreme Court/Supreme Court in Boy Scouts of America v. Dale.
More Evan Wolfson on Wikipedia.Gay people want the freedom to marry for the same reasons non-gay people do.
It's emotional as well as economic, practical as well as personal, tangible as well as intangible.
There's never before been a chance in North America for businesses and states and others to grapple with the reality of a married couple before them who happened to be gay, and are we going to honor them or are we going to disrespect them? ... Freedom to Marry.
We've seen a steady improvement in the number of people who support marriage equality for same-sex couples.
[The questionnaire itself is] inconsistent and elliptical, ... In some ways, the most positive aspect is that she filled it out.
Through this law, Vermont becomes a pioneer for families and equality.
Americans will see that when lesbians and gay men are given access to most of the rights and obligations of civil marriage, the sky will not fall and the institution of marriage will be even stronger.
The right wing would love nothing more than for us to spend all of our airtime discussing distractions such as polygamy, bestiality and other — from their point of view — doomsday scenarios rather than engage the public about committed same-sex couples being discriminated against.
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