This is an exciting time in our growing civil rights movement for marriage equality. The Marriage Equality Matters campaign demonstrates the power of engaging the public and showing them the reality of marriage equality, rather than right-wing rhetoric and scare tactics. When it comes to opening hearts and minds to fairness and reaching the diverse communities who make up our American landscape seeing is, in fact, believing.
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The opposition is trying to drive a wedge between LGBT individuals and people of color. This campaign is to show that communities of color support us.Samiya Bashir
There's a trend towards fairness, not only in the decision making, but also in polling residents state-by-state.
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Conservatives can hopefully look at this case and see that we are real people and see that the level of commitment we have to each other is no more and no less than any other couple.
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We say 'thank heavens' this couple was living in Massachusetts and were married and were able to take care of each other.
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It's important to show our victories but also our defeat of the mean-spirited anti-gay legislation being put forward by the opposition. It's really an attack on children and families.
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