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Freedom To Marry Launches National TV AD

By BTL Staff

NEW YORK – In just a little over a year since the strike down of DOMA in the case of Windsor v United States the country has seen 40 rulings across the land affirming marriage for gay couples.
Freedom To Marry, the Roadmap to Victory campaign to win marriage nationwide, has released "It's Time" their national TV ad campaign highlighting tangible harms to same-sex couples still discriminated against in over half of the United States.
"The ad underscores the human costs of prolonging marriage discrimination," said Evan Wolfson, president of Freedom to Marry. "Every day of denial is a day of real and needless injury, indignity, and injustice for too many families across the country — and time matters. America is ready for the freedom to marry, 40 lower court rulings have affirmed the freedom to marry, even opponents are saying it's time to bring the country to national resolution — and it is, indeed, time."
Transcript of the ad reads "One nation, indivisible – except if you're gay. In 19 states, gay couples and their children share in the protections that only the freedom to marry provides. In the others, they are banned from marrying. They're taxed unfairly, denied Social Security and parenting rights, and can lose a family home when their loved one dies. Every day of denial means real harms to real families. It's time to end marriage discrimination," and closes with the words "America is ready for the freedom to marry. It's time."
The Supreme Court of The United States officially begins its new term on Sept. 29, with marriage cases from Utah, Oklahoma, Virginia, Indiana and Wisconsin under consideration.
Opponents of the freedom to marry agree on the need for a swift review by SCOTUS and in papers filed earlier this month, the state of Utah, which is defending its withholding the freedom to marry from same-sex couples, declared that the marriage question is of "immense national importance and warrants this Court's immediate review."
In June of 2013 the landmark case of Windsor v United States was determined by SCOTUS from both Republican and Democratic appointed judges, which held that marriage discrimination is unconstitutional.
The big push to have SCTOUS hear marriage equality cases is not just a LGBT campaign. Earlier this month 32 states and major Fortune 500 companies sent an Amici Brief to the Supreme Court requesting that the Court settle the issue and that continuing the injury and indignity inflicted on families by the deprivation of the Constitutional guarantees of the freedom to marry and equal protection must end nationwide. The companies who signed the brief, which include businesses such as General Electric, Pfizer, Nike, Staples, Target and Alcoa argue that the current landscape is unfair to their employees and adds additional bureaucratic burdens that inhibit the ability to conduct business and attract and retain the best and brightest employes.
With the November election only 39 days away as of Sept. 26 the race is on to promote candidates and their policies that will effect the nation for years to come.
The thirty-second ad airs Sunday [Sept. 28] on morning network news shows in the Washington D.C. market and on cable news next week.

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