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National and State Partners

Why Marriage Matters is a project of Freedom to Marry, in partnership with these state-based groups and other national organizations.

National

American Civil Liberties Union

Center for American Progress

Equality Federation

Family Equality Council

Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders (GLAD)

Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD)

Get Equal

Give a Damn Campaign

Human Rights Campaign (HRC)

Lambda Legal

Movement Advancement Project (MAP)

National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR)

Third Way

State

Equality Maine
Mass. Equality
Equality Maryland
PROMO- Missouri
Basic Rights Oregon
Garden State Equality- NJ
Fair Wisconsin

Alaskans Together for Equality

Basic Rights Oregon

Equal Rights Washington

Equality Alabama

Equality Arizona

Equality Florida

Equality Hawaii

Equality Illinois

Equality Louisiana

Equality Maine

Equality Maryland

Equality Michigan

Equality New Mexico

Equality Ohio

Equality Pennsylvania

Equality Texas

Equality Utah

Fair Wisconsin

Garden State Equality- New Jersey

Gay and Lesbian Activists Alliance- DC

Georgia Equality

Mass. Equality

One Colorado

One Iowa

Outfront Minnesota

PROMO- Missouri

South Carolina Equality

Vermont Freedom to Marry

 

 

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Service Members Speak Out for the Freedom to Marry

Three military veterans who, together with their friend, U.S. Air Force Master Sergeant T. Ashley Metcalf represent 45 years of military service. Sgt. Metcalf is gay, and his band of brothers support him and the freedom to marry.

Freedom Oklahoma: Cuyler Family on Why Marriage Matters

This new video focuses on Ed Cuyler, a retired Army colonel who served in the Army for 12 years, with 22 years in the Army reserves. He has received a Purple Heart and speaks here about why he wants his daughter to be able to marry the woman she loves.

William & Marge Bradshaw for Utah Unites for Marriage

William and Marge Bradshaw have 5 children and 18 grandkids. Above all, they know marriage is about love and commitment—and all loving couples deserve the rights that only marriage can provide.

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September 21, 2012

WATCH: Groundbreaking educational broadcast ads in ME, MN and WA

June 15, 2012

“Marriage is work. Sometimes it’s hard work, but it’s also good work. It’s more than worth the work.

September 27, 2011

Tobi, Karen, and Edie

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