Evan Wolfson

Obama Delivering Commencement Address

AP | Posted 05.15.2012

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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama will spend Monday in New York City, and his comments in support of same-sex marriage appear likely to be a p...

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Michelangelo Signorile

Freedom To Marry's Gay Marriage Efforts Are 'Misplaced,' Says LGBT Network Official

HuffingtonPost.com | Michelangelo Signorile | Posted 04.07.2012

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The Courage Campaign, the California-based LGBT online organizing network which has been a force in the battle against Prop 8 and other initiatives, j...

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Michelangelo Signorile

Freedom To Marry President Discusses Marriage Equality Fight, NOM Memos

HuffingtonPost.com | Michelangelo Signorile | Posted 03.31.2012

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Freedom to Marry president Evan Wolfson responded to charges that the group has abandoned efforts to fight constitutional amendments on the ballot thi...

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President Obama's Maine Chance to Make the Case

Evan Wolfson | Posted 05.25.2011

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Evan Wolfson

On Saturday, Obama has the opportunity -- and I believe the obligation -- to speak in moral as well as concrete terms about non-gay people's stake in ending the exclusion and discrimination gay people endure.

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Omnigamy, anyone?

Jane Minogue | Posted 11.17.2011

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Jane Minogue

Stop debating whether or not gay marriage will open the door to polygamy and bestiality, and understand that marriage is an ever-changing arrangement to meet individual, social, cultural, and religious needs.

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Frank Rich: Dems, Not GOP, Standing In Way Of Gay Rights

New York Times | FRANK RICH | Posted 05.25.2011

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It would be easy to blame the Beltway logjam in gay civil rights progress on the cultural warriors of the religious right and its political host, the ...

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Winning the Freedom to Marry? Cue the Attack on the Gays!

Evan Wolfson | Posted 05.25.2011

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The National Organization "for" Marriage and its backers are funneling a new ad into states such as Maine, New Jersey, and New York, whose legislatures are all weighing the freedom to marry.

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Will the California Supreme Court Strike Down Prop 8, or "Willy-Nilly Disregard" Its Duty?

Evan Wolfson | Posted 05.25.2011

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Evan Wolfson

Unlike right-wing opponents of equality, who denounce and seek to punish courts for doing their job, I criticize only when they flinch or fail to do it.

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