Working together in this campaign, we can make 2011, like 2010, another winning year for the freedom to marry.

Maggie Gallagher of the National Organization for Marriage recently wrote a column for the New York Post in which she tried...

National Organization for Marriage's relentless efforts to shroud itself and its funders in a veil of secrecy is telling: If they had a good case against the freedom to marry, why would they be so eager to hide what they're doing?

Those of us who support the freedom to marry must elevate the truth we saw in this trial: that families are helped, and no one is hurt, when same-sex couples share in marriage.

National Organization for Marriage is now throwing every possible smear at gay equality supporters while attempting to paint themselves in a coat of victimhood.

Rather than discussing marriage, NOM's leaders are engaging in a familiar tactic in their anti-gay bus tour by drumming up a false narrative about the "discrimination" facing opponents of marriage equality.

NOM has no real arguments, and their numbers are dwindling. So let NOM bus around, trying to market drummed-up "testimonials" and concoct media stunts to drape themselves in manipulative victimhood.

The anti-gay diversion strategy should not obscure the truth of the matter: The reason smart lawyers like Charles Cooper don't give a better answer to why marriage discrimination should continue is that there isn't one.

As soon as Congress finalizes the bill authorizing repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell, it should turn its attention to removing the equally repugnant 1996 law mandating federal discrimination in marriage.

As we celebrate the anniversary of marriage in Iowa, all of us committed to the freedom to marry in America have come a long way and confounded the naysayers, but there are still more "unlikely" wins to achieve.

It is now clear that civil unions do not work, and fall far short of the equality commanded by the constitution and ordered by the Supreme Court.

To maintain the powerful momentum created by victory in D.C., the freedom to marry movement must increase education, mobilization, and legislator-persuasion efforts the next wave of states in which victories are within reach.

Our Hawaii freedom to marry case was shown to the public on Court TV, and produced a sea-change in public support. No wonder the anti-gay opponents didn't want the Perry trial available on YouTube.

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.

We now have an American president for the first time publicly acknowledging his support for same sex-marriage, which even a few short years ago would have been unthinkable.

For those of us in committed relationships seeking legal recognition, it's an emotionally draining, two-steps-forward, one-step-back process, state by state, country by country.

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.

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.

The Windy City Times discovered two candidate surveys conducted in 1996, in which Obama wrote "I favor legalizing same-sex marriages, and would fight efforts to prohibit such marriages."

If Macy's can speak out for equality for all, so can we. And if Gov. Schwarzenegger can do his part to respect and uphold the epic gain in California, so must we.

In asserting the freedom to marry, the court not only did the right thing, it did its job -- upholding the Constitution against laws that fell short of constitutional requirements.