Celebrate Freedom to Marry Week

[fullofgrace]

http://www.aclu.org/blog/lgbt-rights...dom-marry-week

Today kicks off the 12th annual Freedom to Marry Week. This year, the week is focused on encouraging people across the country to have seven conversations in seven days to move people to support marriage for lesbian and gay couples. Readers of this blog may recall that just last week we launched the Tell 3 campaign to encourage people to talk to three close friends and relatives about what it means to be LGBT. Why the sudden push for conversations? Because that’s what’s ultimately going to build support for LGBT equality on all fronts. So whether you care about marriage or nondiscrimination protections, please try to talk to at least three (and as many as seven) people this week.

http://www.freedomtomarry.org/

Have you talked to three people or had seven conversations this week?

[ckumelos]

LOL. I am trying to get married without the government getting involved.

[Maluhia]

YES this is rad, I'm so participating.

[Ron_Low]

I loved how Sara Silverman used her appearance on The View (ABC USA) to wedge this topic in.

She said "I can't believe people keep getting married. It's gross. It's liking being giddy about joining a country club that doesn't allow blacks or Jews. It's disgusting. I won't think about getting married until there is equal marriage."

Then her series showed the season 3 opener that night and it was a horrifying stone-aged take on intersex conditions, throwing around the word hermaphrodite (like the "n" word to intersex people). So we need to have conversations about that, too, until it reaches her sphere.