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	GLAD :: Marriage in Massachusetts FAQ
		Further, single people and married couples are often subject to different tax penalties, so incorrectly designating one’s status may result in a person overpaying his or her taxes, or, more dangerously, underpaying his or her taxes, which may trigger penalties and interest payments.
		It could include a statement that the taxpayer was married in Massachusetts (and the marriage certificate could be attached as well), and that the only reason he or she is filing as a single person is because of the federal marriage restirction (DOMA).
		How couples married in Massachusetts should file taxes in their home state depends on the way the state tax law is structured, as well as the existence or non-existence of a state marriage restriction.
	www.glad.org /marriage/massmarriage_faq.shtml (4051 words)

	BOSTON ACTIVISM -- MARRIAGE
		The Alternatives to Marriage Project A national organization for unmarried people, including people who choose not to marry, are prevented from marrying, or are among the majority of people who live together before marriage.
		Freedom To Marry Coalition of Massachusetts Engages in grassroots education and advocacy for equal civil marriage rights throughout Massachusetts.
		The Religious Coalition for the Freedom to Marry RCFM supports civil marriage rights for same gender couples and seeks to promote dialogue within faith communities about religious marriage for gay and lesbian couples.
	www.bostonactivism.net /Marriage.html (144 words)

	Vermont Freedom to Marry Task Force Column (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Vermont Freedom to Marry Task Force is pleased to begin a monthly column in OITM.
		As you are probably are aware, in July of 1997, three same-gender couples sued the State of Vermont seeking the freedom to marry.
		For example, a consortium of several Vermont religious communities submitted a brief arguing that the marriage issue is a civil, not a religious issue, and that many communities of faith support the freedom to marry.
	www.mountainpridemedia.org /apr98/ftmtfcol.htm (786 words)

	The Freedom to Marry Around the World
		While none of the states in the US have yet recognized the freedom to marry of same-sex couples, other nations have made great strides towards full equality for their gay and lesbian citizens.
		In January 2002, the last remnant of gender-based discrimination in Dutch marriage law was removed, when joint parental rights and responsibilities were granted to same-sex married parents just as they are to opposite-sex married parents upon the birth of a child.
		When the bill becomes law in the Summer of 2003, gay and lesbian couples will be able to get married and receive all of the accompanying benefits on an equal footing with opposite-sex couples, with the exception, for now, of the right to adopt.
	www.glad.org /rights/OP5-aroundtheworld.shtml (971 words)

	Screening Schedule of FREEDOM TO MARRY
		Freedom to Marry was broadcast on Tuesday the 9th of August, at 23 hs, local hour in Argentina.
		FREEDOM TO MARRY brings a joyful, personal face to same-sex marriage at the height of this burgeoning civil rights movement.
		FREEDOM TO MARRY was screened at the Humboldt Unitarian Universalist Fellowship in Bayside, CA on Monday, May 9th.
	freedomtomarry.tv /schedule.html (493 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Martin Luther
		At a chapter of Augustinian Friars at Wittenberg, 6 Jan., 1522, six resolutions, no doubt inspired by Luther himself, were unanimously adopted, which aimed at the subversion of the whole monastic system; five days later the Augustinians removed all altars but one from their church, and burnt the pictures and holy oils.
		While Germany was drenched in blood, its people paralyzed with horror, the cry of the widow and wail of the orphan throughout the land, Luther then in his forty-second year was spending his honeymoon with Catherine von Bora, then twenty-six (married 13 June, 1525), a Bernardine nun who had abandoned her convent.
		Freedom of religion became the monopoly of the ruling princes, it made Germany "little more than a geographical name, and a vague one withal" (Cambridge Hist.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/09438b.htm (16240 words)

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		In addition to denying them the right to commit themselves for the rest of their lives to the person whom they truly love in front of their families and country, they are denied equal benefits with respect to insurance, immigration, taxes and wills.
		Because marriage is a basic human right and an individual personal choice, the state should not interfere with same-gender couples who choose to marry and share equally in the commitment, responsibilities and rights of civil marriage.
		Students are asked to look for the string in their mailboxes and to "tie the knot" on their bag next Thursday to show support for Freedom to Marry Day, equality for gay and lesbian people and love.
	kendrick.colgate.edu /maroon/ArchivesS98/feb0698/lgba.html (305 words)

	GayWired.com - Freedom to Marry Week begins February 8 - - Freedom to Marry Week, which begi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Freedom to Marry - the gay and non-gay partnership working to win marriage equality nationwide - sponsors Freedom to Marry Week and Freedom to Marry Day along with its national, state, and local partner organizations.
		Thursday, February 12, is set aside as Freedom to Marry Day, but events vary from city-to-city across the nation and may occur on different days of Freedom to Marry Week.
		The kit was prepared by a coalition representing several national groups working for marriage equality, which Freedom to Marry are its partner organizations.
	www.gaywired.com /article.cfm?section=9&id=2110 (733 words)

	Freedom to Marry
		To advance the movement for marriage equality, a core group of gay and non-gay leaders and groups is working to launch a new organization and approach Freedom to Marry.
		Civil marriage is a powerful and important affirmation of love, a source of social recognition and support, and the legal gateway to a vast array of protections, responsibilities, and benefits, most of which cannot be replicated in any other way.
		Denial of the freedom to marry undermines young gay people's sense of self and dreams of a life together with a partner.
	www.geocities.com /freedomtomarry (490 words)

	Freedom To Marry: Rites & Rights. Introduction
		That is the period during which most of the precedents were established that bear on the question of who is allowed to marry.
		In the early years of our nation, married women were chattel: the legal property of, and subjugated to, their husbands.
		We’ve been in a committed relationship since 1993 and were one of 4,000 same-sex couples married by The City And County Of San Francisco in February 2004.
	www.lmaw.org /freedom (869 words)

	The freedom to marry whomever we want :: Every Voice Network :: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The act of civil freedom that Lea Ananda expressed Saturday is just what Chris Roddam, a 22-year-old Navy medic, said he is serving his country for.
		While not free to address the specifics of that ruling, she was free to address the general ideas of the balance of powers among the three branches of government in Massachusetts.
		The first couple to be married in San Francisco under this current wave of licensed protest marriages was a lesbian couple who have been local community leaders, and devoted over fifty years together as their love spilled over into their wider communities, again and again.
	www.everyvoice.net /modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1086&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0 (1917 words)

	Gay Marriage Questions
		Concerns about reproduction are central to those restrictions on one’s choice of marriage partner—just as they are central to the restriction against “marrying” a person of the same sex.
		However, the freedom of homosexuals to marry is subject to the same restrictions as anyone else, as well.
		Every person is legally barred from marrying a child, a close blood relative, a person who is already married, or a person of the same sex.
	www.nogaymarriage.com /gaymarriagequestions.html (3749 words)

	Equal Marriage for Same-Sex Couples \| Advocacy Events
		A recently married couple (and fathers of two sons) will speak of their decision, and the spiritual and political reasons for equal-marriage rights will be addressed in the 15-minute event.
		This year they will be getting married at the Metropolitan Community Church of Toronto, after a reception at City Hall to celebrate the arrival of equal marriage in Ontario, and to remember Canadians in other provinces who still are denied the freedom to marry.
		In an homage to the historic slave route to freedom, known as the Underground Railroad, the initiative is called "The Civil Marriage Trail".
	www.samesexmarriage.ca /advocacy/february14_2004.htm (1427 words)

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		As bans on the rights of various groups to marry were struck down, in 2000 the Vermont legislature passed a law that gave same-sex couples all the rights and benefits of marriage, but called them civil unions.
		They married to make alliances, or to protect wealth and control property, to ensure the survival of the clan, to ensure the stability of society, to name but a few.
		And not everyone marries for the purpose of having children and a good number of couples choose never to have children at all.
	www.uucckingston.org /marriage.html (2532 words)

	UUA News & Events: News in 2004 Freedom To Marry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		On December 21, 1999, then-UUA President John A. Buehrens wrote to then-Vermont Governor Howard Dean, in support of the Vermont State Supreme court's unanimous decision that Vermont must guarantee the same protection and benefits to gay and lesbian couples that it does for heterosexual couples.
		While a decision in this case is pending, interfaith support of freedom to marry for same-sex couples continues to grow, as demonstrated at a June 5, 2003 press conference held by the Religious Coalition for Freedom to Marry
		Three days later, after the waiting period imposed on most couples by Massachusetts law, fifty same-sex couples were married in historic Arlington Street Church in Boston.
	www.uua.org /news/2004/freedomtomarry (1087 words)

	Equal Marriage.Org: The Freedom to Marry Coalition of Massachusetts
		Equal Marriage.Org: The Freedom to Marry Coalition of Massachusetts
		This is it - the second vote in the Consitutional Convention will be the deciding vote on the anti-gay Travaglini-Lees amendment >
		Lobby Day, Noon-time Rally and Candlelight Vigil are planned for the week of the Constitutional Convention.
	www.equalmarriage.org (76 words)

	Equal Marriage for Same-Sex Couples \| Events \| Freedom To Marry Day
		Today is the fourth anniversary of Canada's first legal same-sex marriages yet some regions of Canada are still violating the Charter rights of gays and lesbians by denying them the freedom to marry.
		World Freedom to Marry Day is now an international movement by individuals committed to equality, dignity and respect for human rights and same-sex marriage.
		Perry married Philip Ray Deblieck in Toronto in 2003 and is suing the state of California to recognize the marriage.
	www.samesexmarriage.ca /advocacy/feb1405.htm (483 words)

	HOMOSEXUAL (SAME-SEX) MARRIAGES - All sides to the issue
		It was only after the civil war that African-Americans were allowed to marry in all areas of the U.S. It was only after a U.S. Supreme Court decision in 1967 that mixed race couples could marry anywhere in the U.S. But, until recently, same-sex couples could not marry anywhere in the world.
		Currently, only one man and one woman can be joined in matrimony and have their marriages recognized by the state, except for residents of Massachusetts who successfully won a court battle for the right to marry.
		Heterosexual couples who plan to marry in the future would find that nothing is changed; the regulations, privileges, obligations, benefits etc would be the same as always.
	www.religioustolerance.org /hom_marr.htm (1330 words)

	The Freedom to Marry
		That doesn't even count the privileges that the business community bestows on married couples, like lower insurance rates (married drivers are safer drivers) or multiple car discounts or health insurance benefits.
		It was going to be my wife's birthday present until I found out that what is a routine procedure that they do for a woman who marries a man simply by presenting her marriage license would cost me in excess of $700.
		The arguments against gay marriage are the same fear-based arguments that whites used to try to prevent laws that allowed fls to marry whites.
	onespiritproject.com /Shelly/marriage.html (808 words)

	UUA News & Events: Freedom to Marry, for all People
		All of these reasons for marriage, she argues, have undergone transformations because of a switch from an emphasis on kin and community, common in agricultural societies, to an emphasis on the individual in contemporary society.
		She said that if she happened to be as in love with a woman as she is with this man, it wouldn’t even be a question I could ask – at least not in the same way.
		From my perspective, you can be married in the eyes of the Divine and in the eyes of the state, and I think that the first is more important.
	www.uu.utica.ny.uua.org /news/2003/freedomtomarry/baumberger.html (2295 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		We concluded, however, that the purpose of the law was not to restrict the exception to legally married couples, but to safeguard the child, and that to apply the literal language of the statute in these circumstances would defeat the statutory purpose and "reach an absurd result." Id. at 371, 628 A.2d at 1273.
		It is equally undisputed that many opposite-sex couples marry for reasons unrelated to procreation, that some of these couples never intend to have children, and that others are incapable of having children.
		The laudable governmental goal of promoting a commitment between married couples to promote the security of their children and the community as a whole provides no reasonable basis for denying the legal benefits and protections of marriage to same-sex couples, who are no differently situated with respect to this goal than their opposite-sex counterparts.
	www.lambdalegal.org /sections/library/decisions/vermont (17798 words)

	Freedom To Marry: The Right Strikes Back. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Shoyer said that she hoped the Supreme Court would agree with Superior Court Judge Linda Levitt that there is no fundamental right to same-sex marriage, and that the state needed to preserve the link between child rearing and marriage, by preserving the institution.
		A gay man is still free to marry a woman." Schoyer said.
		She is sponsoring a bill that would outlaw gay marriage, which is tied up in the Judiciary Committee.
	www.mountainpridemedia.org /mar98/rightfin.htm (486 words)

	Links Marriage ♥ Marriage Equality California (MECA)
		Led by attorney activist Evan Wolfson, Freedom to Marry is a non-gay/gay partnership to secure full equality and recognition for same-sex couples and their families.
		A group seeking gay couples around the country to join in a class action suit to sue states for the right to marry based on violation of the first amendment right to freedom of religion since current marriage laws are based on a religious definition in violation of the first amendment.
		A group to secure the freedom and the right of Gay and Lesbian couples to enter into legally-recognized civil marriage, having all the federal and state benefits and responsibilities which that entails.
	www.marriageequalityca.org /links_marriage.php (2845 words)

	IGLSS: Angles - Vol. One No. 2 May 1996: For Richer, For Poorer: The Freedom to Marry Debate
		And marrying someone often is a public announcement of that commitment.
		Evidence further suggests that married adults are healthier and live longer than single ones.
		In this analysis, keep in mind that the state budget represents transfers of income throughout the state, and measuring the overall social impact -- on children, adults, and the health of our economy -- is not as simple as measuring changes in taxes and expenditures.
	www.iglss.org /pubs/angles/angels_1-2_p1.html (829 words)

	Verbatim Transcript of Speech on Freedom to Marry
		I want to talk a bit about the benefits and consequences of extending the right to marry to some people while denying it to others because what you're really talking about is the extension of the full rights and privileges of American citizenship to some Americans, but denying it to others.
		The fact that they were married in their church, had both paid for everything they both owned and had spent virtually every day of the last 11 years of their lives together meant nothing in the eyes of the law, because their marriage was not legally recognized.
		In this country, in order to get legally married you not only have to be straight (or pretend to be straight) but you also have to marry someone of the opposite gender.
	www.qrd.org /qrd/www/orgs/ftm/speech.htm (3585 words)

	"Encyclopedia of Mental Health: Shyness"
		They seemed to need desperately the approval and acceptance of their guards, from whom they rarely got it, and ended up trading autonomy for the role of "good prisoner," internalizing negative images of themselves in the process.
		The guard mentality is designed around ways to limit prisoners' freedom of action, thought and association in order to more easily manage prisoner behavior individually and collectively.
		The prisoners, in this dynamic dyadic interaction, are cast in a reactive mold to either rebel and get punished for their heroism, or conform to the coercive rules, and though "good prisoners," come to despise themselves for surrrendering their freedom, and be despised by their guards as weak and ineffectual.
	www.shyness.com /encyclopedia.html (7431 words)

	GLAD - Goodridge Litigation History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		May 21, 2002 -- GLAD filed an appeal in the Appeals Court, seeking higher judicial recognition of the unjustified discrimination present in the state's marriage system.
		'Freedom to Marry Rings' image upper right © H. Mitchell.
		Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders (GLAD) is New England's leading legal rights organization dedicated to ending discrimination based on sexual orientation, HIV status and gender identity and expression.
	www.glad.org /marriage/goodridge_history.shtml (341 words)

	BBC News \| UK Politics \| Forsyth calls for monarch's freedom to marry
		The Tory ex-Cabinet minister went on to describe Labour's devolution package as "constitutional vandalism" and proposals to end the voting rights of hereditary peers as "a barefaced attack" on the people's liberties.
		This law, "couched in offensive 18th century language", excludes Roman Catholics from the throne or from marrying the monarch.
		Sir Michael demanded: "Why retain the Act of Settlement which enshrines at the heart of the constitution the formal doctrine that some 10% of the queen's subjects are to be treated as second-class citizens?"
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk_politics/263436.stm (588 words)

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