Same Sexes! Same Rights!
Supporting the Right for All Couples to Marry

“Everyone has the right to recognition everywhere as a person before the law.”
-- Article 6, the United Nations’ Universal Declaration of Human Rights

However, as of right now, the United States of America is not recognizing same-sex couples as people before the law in terms of legalizing marriage. It’s time that our generation changes that.

In 1967, during the height of the Civil Rights Movement, the United States Supreme Court unanimously ruled in the Loving v. Virginia case that anti-miscegenation laws prohibiting whites and non-whites from marrying were unconstitutional. In it’s ruling, the Court declared that “Marriage is one of the ‘basic civil rights of man’…”

Mildred Loving, a woman of mixed African and Native American ancestry and a co-plantiff in the Loving v. Virginia case, said on the 40th anniversary of the Court’s decision:

“…[N]ot a day goes by that I don't think of Richard and our love, our right to marry, and how much it meant to me to have that freedom to marry the person precious to me, even if others thought he was the "wrong kind of person" for me to marry. I believe all Americans, no matter their race, no matter their sex, no matter their sexual orientation, should have that same freedom to marry. Government has no business imposing some people's religious beliefs over others. Especially if it denies people's civil rights.

I am still not a political person, but I am proud that Richard's and my name is on a court case that can help reinforce the love, the commitment, the fairness, and the family that so many people, black or white, young or old, gay or straight seek in life. I support the freedom to marry for all. That's what Loving, and loving, are all about.”

Forty years ago, laws preventing the races from marrying on the basis of their mutual love were reversed. Forty years later, there are now laws preventing members of the LGBT community from marrying on the basis of their mutual love.

Congressman Dennis Kucinich is the most prominent candidate for President of the United States of America that fully supports the right for all American citizens to equal marriage—and not “civil unions” which unfairly discriminate same-sex couples from opposite-sex ones. Other candidates seem to be in favor of these “civil unions” that deny gays and lesbians their “equal right” to have marriage. Civil rights extend to all people regardless of race, religion, and sexual orientation. These “other candidates” are not in support of equal civil rights like they claim... so let’s use the power of our votes to send a message about true equality—and Dennis Kucinich to the White House in 2008.


XO,
Josef