Tag Archives: Marriage Equality

With Victories, Gay Rights Groups Expand Marriage Push

By PFLAG Boulder County | April 7, 2009

From the New York Times:
MONTPELIER, Vt. — Gay-rights groups say that momentum from back-to-back victories on same-sex marriage in Vermont and Iowa could spill into other states, particularly since at least nine other legislatures are considering measures this year to allow marriage between gay couples.
The Vermont Legislature on Tuesday overrode Gov. Jim Douglas’s veto of a bill [...]

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PFLAG Applauds Iowa Marriage Decision

By PFLAG Boulder County | April 3, 2009

For Immediate Release
Contact: Steve Ralls
April 3, 2009
(202) 467-8180, ext. 214 / sralls@pflag.org
PFLAG Applauds Iowa Marriage Decision
“Today, America’s Heart Can Truly Be Found in the Heartland,” says group
Des Moines, IA – In a landmark decision released earlier today, the Iowa
Supreme Court has affirmed a lower court ruling finding that the state
must recognize full marriage equality for same-sex [...]

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Gay but Equal? Mary Frances Berry in the New York Times

By PFLAG Boulder County | January 16, 2009

AS the country prepares to enter the Obama era, anxiety over the legal status and rights of gays and lesbians is growing. Barack Obama’s invitation to the Rev. Rick Warren, an evangelical pastor who opposes same-sex marriage, to give the invocation at his inauguration comes just as the hit movie “Milk” reminds us of the [...]

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Geoffrey R. Stone: Democracy, Religion and Proposition 8

By PFLAG Boulder County | January 1, 2009

How can a free society reconcile the often competing values of democracy, religious liberty and the separation of church and state? This challenge was vividly illustrated by the recent controversy over California’s Proposition 8, which forbade same-sex marriage.
In a democracy, the majority of citizens ordinarily may enact whatever laws they want. Some laws, however, are [...]

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Article 16: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights

By PFLAG Boulder County | December 31, 2008

Did you know that the Universal Declaration of Human Rights guarantees that everyone has the right to marry?

Article 16 

Men and women of full age, without any limitation due to race, nationality or religion, have the right to marry and to found a family. They are entitled to equal rights as to marriage, during marriage and [...]

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The Problem for Gays with Rick Warren — and Obama

By PFLAG Boulder County | December 20, 2008

From TIME magazine:
About three years ago, a reporter at Fortune asked Rick Warren, the successful pastorwhom the President-elect has asked to pray at his Inauguration, about homosexuality. “I’m no homophobic guy,” Warren said. His proof? He has dined with gays; he has a church “full of people who are caring for gays who are dying of AIDS”; he believes [...]

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