A Message from the ACLU's Lesbian and Gay Rights Project: We Will Fight On
No movement for freedom has ever had a smooth path to progress, and the movement to end the exclusion of same-sex couples from marriage is no different. Nine months ago when the mayor of San Francisco married thousands of lesbian and gay couples, we took a giant step forward. Millions of Americans learned how much gay people yearn for the security and place in society that marriage represents. Millions began to understand the commitments members of same-sex couples make to each other, and how unfair it is to treat those couples as strangers.
Last week, we took a step back. Eleven states changed the very charters that establish our society to try to keep same-sex couples out of that society forever. But discouraging as they were, these results ended nothing. Lawsuits to end the exclusion will go forward in New York, California, Washington, Maryland, New Jersey, Florida, Connecticut and Indiana. Lawsuits to get equal treatment will continue in Alaska and Montana and New Jersey. And if the fight for equality in Oregon may take a little longer, it is hardly over.
Same-sex couples will marry, and become fully a part of the American landscape. The promise of equality in our Constitution demands no less. And sooner or later, that promise will be kept.
Read the complete statement by Matt Coles, Director of the ACLU's Lesbian and Gay Rights Project.
Last week, we took a step back. Eleven states changed the very charters that establish our society to try to keep same-sex couples out of that society forever. But discouraging as they were, these results ended nothing. Lawsuits to end the exclusion will go forward in New York, California, Washington, Maryland, New Jersey, Florida, Connecticut and Indiana. Lawsuits to get equal treatment will continue in Alaska and Montana and New Jersey. And if the fight for equality in Oregon may take a little longer, it is hardly over.
Same-sex couples will marry, and become fully a part of the American landscape. The promise of equality in our Constitution demands no less. And sooner or later, that promise will be kept.
Read the complete statement by Matt Coles, Director of the ACLU's Lesbian and Gay Rights Project.
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