In an interview with ABC News, President Obama has endorsed marriage equality for same-sex couples. His evolution is complete.
I am overwhelmed with tears of joy, as are millions of other LGBT people and our millions of allies across America. We will remember for the rest of our lives where we were when we heard the sitting President of the United States say he supports marriage equality.
Today’s announcement by the ...
Posted by Steven Goldstein on May 9, 2012
http://www.gardenstateequality.org/2012/05/jubilation-president-obama-endorses-marriage-equality/
The fundamental question in this trial was whether Dharun Ravi would have similarly invaded the privacy of a roommate having intimate relations with someone of the opposite sex, as Ravi did to Tyler Clementi and M.B.
In our view, the answer is no – that Ravi would not have invaded the privacy of a straight roommate. In fact, the most compelling evidence in the case, Ravi’s text messages, indicated exactly that. The text ...
Posted by Steven Goldstein on March 16, 2012
http://www.gardenstateequality.org/2012/03/statement-on-the-dharun-ravi-verdict/
Not many other places in the country could experience what New Jersey experienced on Thursday. By a vote of 35 to 0 in the state Senate and 72 to 2 in the Assembly, the New Jersey legislature passed yet another bill protecting LGBT people – a fully inclusive bill that leaves no member of the LGBT community behind.
I’m talking, of course, about the appropriations bill that adds $1 million in new funding to the landmark ...
Posted by Steven Goldstein on March 16, 2012
http://www.gardenstateequality.org/2012/03/what-a-day-garden-state-equality-reaches-213-laws-and-100000-members/
Today I will begin a photo campaign to the Governor and all those in the legislature that voted against my family. I do respect other people’s opinions and I hope my opinion is respected as well. I DO NOT however respect anyone voting to enshire discrimination against my family into law.
The photos that will be sent will speak for themselves. We are a 1st class family in NJ and would like to sit down ...
Posted by Jon Galluccio on February 17, 2012
http://www.gardenstateequality.org/2012/02/please-dont-veto-this-family/
Tomorrow, the Marriage Equality and Religious Exemption Act will be brought before the New Jersey State Senate for a vote. In the weeks prior, I’m sure we’ve all heard a multitude of reasons why marriage equality is the only answer to the civil unions problem – testimony from same-sex couples for whom civil unions proved tragically lacking, children of same-sex parents who told us that their families deserve the same recognition as all ...
Posted by Isabella Levy on February 12, 2012
http://www.gardenstateequality.org/2012/02/why-marriage-matters-to-the-youth/
Today we celebrate the birthday and life of Dr. Martin Luther King, whom I met in 1958 at our alma mater, the Boston University School of Theology. I am 78 and he would be turning 83. I marched with Dr. King in Boston and in the Selma to Montgomery March. And I believe if he were alive, his deep reverence for equality would make him a champion of marriage equality today.
Indeed, Dr. King’s words in his 1963 Letter from Birmingham Jail ...
Posted by Rev. Gilbert Caldwell on January 16, 2012
http://www.gardenstateequality.org/2012/01/dr-martin-luther-king-and-marriage-equality/
