HRC to spend $1 million supporting gay marriage

[davidinalameda]

http://www.advocate.com/new_news.asp?ID=10419&sd=11/11/03

The Human Rights Campaign, a Washington, D.C.-based gay rights group, launched a $1 million national ad campaign Monday supporting same-sex marriage. The ads, which will appear in major national newspapers, come as gay marriage is shaping up to be a hot-button issue in the 2004 presidential campaign, with conservative lawmakers lobbying for a constitutional amendment to ban it as well as prohibit recognition of all civil unions and domestic partnerships. "We want to educate people about what marriage is," HRC spokesman Mark Shields told The Washington Post

[terrya]

1. Very good news.

I'm glad the HRC is doing this. To counter the hateful Federal Marriage Amendment and the gay bashing by the Republicans in the upcoming election.