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Photo: Marriage Equality is not a Conservative or a Liberal Issue


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During the 2010 trial of Prop. 8, famed conservative attorney Ted Olson wrote a cover story for Newsweek.

Americans who believe in the words of the Declaration of Independence, in Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, in the 14th Amendment, and in the Constitution’s guarantees of equal protection and equal dignity before the law cannot sit by while this wrong continues. This is not a conservative or liberal issue; it is an American one, and it is time that we, as Americans, embraced it.

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