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October 2012

Marriage News Watch: New Polling From Key Marriage Battlegrounds (Video)
There are several new poll numbers this week, and support is up across the board. But we're not out of the woods yet in this election's four key battleground states.
NOM Launches Attack Ads in Battleground States. AFER Factchecks.
The National Organization for Marriage is ramping up their campaigns in Minnesota and Maine with two new television commercials. AFER corrects their claims with real facts.
Finding of Fact: Children Benefit When Their Parents Can Marry
Marriage inequality not only harms gay and lesbian Americans, it affects their children. the Federal District Court in the Perry case made the following finding of fact: The children of same-sex couples benefit when their parents can marry.
New Poll: 60% of Latinos Support Marriage Equality
A survey released today by NBC Latino/IBOPE Zogby shows that 60% of Latinos support the freedom to marry for gay and lesbian Americans.
Election Ads Show Importance of Marriage (Slideshow)
With less than 34 days until Election Day, campaigns are heating up in the four states where marriage is on the ballot. Here’s a look at the TV ads in states facing marriage equality referendums.
California Speaker John A. Pérez, Cleve Jones, Dustin Lance Black and more star in “8” San Francisco
The renowned American Conservatory Theatre will stage a one-night-only benefit reading of “8” in San Francisco on October 7.
Prop. 8 Case Update: Supreme Court Timing
The U.S. Supreme Court has still not made a decision about whether it will review AFER’s challenge to Proposition 8.
Video: Supreme Court Waiting to Decide on Hearing Prop. 8 Case
Big news still coming from the United State Supreme Court on the Prop 8 case. Plus: major advances in some of the other challenges to state and federal bans on the freedom to marry.