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Former NFL commissioner donates $100,000 to Md. marriage campaign
Former National Football League Commissioner Paul Tagliabue on Tuesday announced that he and his wife have donated $100,000 to the campaign to defend Maryland’s same-sex marriage law.
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Baltimore Ravens’ Matt Birk: ‘Not all NFL players think redefining marriage is a good thing’
Matt Birk, the Baltimore Ravens center (and former Minnesota Viking), is the latest NFL player to enter the debate on marriage equality, and has penned an op-ed in the Minneapolis Star-Tribune opposing same-sex marriage.
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Minnesota Vikings punter Chris Kluwe wants to debate anti-gay lawmaker
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. — Chris Kluwe, the Minnesota Vikings punter whose profanity-laced letter to a Maryland lawmaker in defense of Baltimore Ravens linebacker Brendon Ayanbadejo’s support of same-sex marriage, wants to debate a Minnesota state representative who has expressed anti-gay views.
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O’Malley: Maryland marriage campaign needs to raise another $2 million
Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley said on Monday that the campaign to defend his state’s same-sex marriage law needs to raise another $2 million ahead of the Nov. 6 referendum.
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Harry Jackson cites dubious studies to claim gay parents harm children
Trying to boost his campaign to generate a voter rebellion against Democrats over the issue of marriage equality, Harry Jackson wrote in his column today that legalizing same-sex marriage would harm children.
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Al Sharpton, black ministers voice support for Maryland marriage equality
WASHINGTON — A group of African American clergy were joined by the Rev. Al Sharpton for a news conference at the National Press Club in Washington on Friday to voice their support for Maryland’s marriage equality law, and to dispel the myth that all black ministers are against same-sex marriage.
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Freedom to Marry changes course, launches Maryland marriage PAC
The Washington Blade has learned that Freedom to Marry has formed a political action committee that will allow it to raise money to defend Maryland’s same-sex marriage law, a change of course from earlier this year when the organization declined to join the coalition of groups defending the law.
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Maryland Governor to attend same-sex marriage fundraiser with Ravens’ Ayanbadejo
ANNAPOLIS, Md — Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley is teaming up with the Baltimore Ravens’ linebacker, Brendon Ayanbadejo, for a joint appearance next month to raise money and gain support for the state’s marriage equality law.
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Lawmaker backs off demand that Ravens silence player’s support of gay marriage
BALTIMORE, Md. — The Maryland lawmaker who wrote to the owner of the Baltimore Ravens professional football team last month, asking that the team silence linebacker Brendon Ayanbadejo over his support of same-sex marriage, has backed off from his opposition following a national outcry after the letter was made public last week.
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NFL’s Chris Kluwe to anti-gay lawmaker: ‘Holy fucking shitballs. Did you seriously just say that?’
Minnesota Vikings punter Chris Kluwe on Friday entered the controversy surrounding a Maryland lawmaker’s attempts to stifle Baltimore Ravens’ linebacker Brendon Ayanbadejo’s support for marriage equality.