Freedom to Marry launches $1 million marriage equality campaign in U.S. South
This is cross posted from GD.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024556599
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The new effort, called Southerners for the Freedom to Marry, will include significant field and media work over the next year in partnership with supportive organizations across the region. Bipartisan co-chairs include civil rights icon Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.), who kicked off the campaign in a web ad; U.S. Senator Tim Kaine (D-Va.); and George W. Bush advisor Mark McKinnon from Texas.
“Our investment in the South comes at a pivotal time in the marriage movement,” said Evan Wolfson, founder and president of Freedom to Marry.
“The South is home to hundreds of thousands of loving, committed same-sex couples – and to a majority of the nearly 50 federal marriage cases now underway in courts across the country. Our new campaign will give voice to the many in the region now ready to move forward, including clergy, business leaders, conservatives, and family members, to show that all of America is ready for the freedom to marry,” said Wolfson.
Despite growing support in the South, Southern states continue to discriminate against the more than 200,000 couples and their families who make the region their home. According to 2010 Census Bureau data, same-sex couples raising children are more common in the South than in any other region of the country. A recent poll of registered Southern voters showed that support for the freedom to marry in the region is now evenly split.
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Beautiful, just beautiful!
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Thanks Fearless.
Let me know, I'll be there.
Or you can take your honeymoon in Mass. I will show you around.
I take it that your anniversary was delightful.
Thanks for the offer, but I wanna go back to New Orleans. I will say, of all the Yankee places, Boston is one of my favorite cities (I really want to go to Salem, though)! It was so exciting and so much fun...a little scary in some parts, but most big cities have those areas. I stayed in a hotel that was on the border of the Irish and Italian neighborhoods in downtown....it was, um...interesting.
We had a nice anniversary (I made mustard peppercorn rib roast; still nibbling on it), completely boring as he actually worked most of the night. 
But, I spent it with the man I love, so 
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