Same Sex Couple Marriage Matters!
Pride Foundation, the nonprofit LGBTQ community foundation serving the U.S. Northwest, which has led an ongoing public education campaign on why marriage matters to all loving and committed couples.
The first video features Lutheran minister Reverend Gib Rossing and his wife, Beth Rossing, talking about their son Jonathan and their hopes for him to be able to marry his long-term partner Ryan. It emphasizes that all loving and committed couples, whether gay or straight, hope to marry for similar reasons: to make a lifetime promise to another person and to share the joys and challenges that life brings.
"We treat all families with respect and fairness, because we believe in the Golden Rule of treating others as we want to be treated," said Kris Hermanns, Executive Director of Pride Foundation. "This advertisement reflects our fundamental values, and will supplement the conversations we've had across the state about the importance of marriage for all loving and committed couples. No one should be denied the freedom to marry the person that they love."
For more information and to check out Senator Pflug's video visit www.WhyMarriageMattersWashington.org.
The first video features Lutheran minister Reverend Gib Rossing and his wife, Beth Rossing, talking about their son Jonathan and their hopes for him to be able to marry his long-term partner Ryan. It emphasizes that all loving and committed couples, whether gay or straight, hope to marry for similar reasons: to make a lifetime promise to another person and to share the joys and challenges that life brings.
"We treat all families with respect and fairness, because we believe in the Golden Rule of treating others as we want to be treated," said Kris Hermanns, Executive Director of Pride Foundation. "This advertisement reflects our fundamental values, and will supplement the conversations we've had across the state about the importance of marriage for all loving and committed couples. No one should be denied the freedom to marry the person that they love."
For more information and to check out Senator Pflug's video visit www.WhyMarriageMattersWashington.org.
Let's start out with a funny video.
For all men who don't support Gay Marriage,
watch out, Gay Men will Marry your Girlfriends!
Oprah on Same Sex Couple Marriage. In 1996, only 27% of Americans supported Gay Marriage. Now 53% support gay marriage.
Same Sex Couple Marriage
This short moving video below features Yvonne and Fred, from Duluth, Minnesota, talking about why marriage has mattered so much during their life together-- and how they wouldn't want to deny that happiness to a same sex couple marriage.
Harlan Gardner of Machias, joined by four generations of his family, talks about what marriage means to him and why it matters to the gay and lesbian people in his life.