A group of business leaders and Hollywood celebrities are urging President Obama to support gay rights more strongly by backing same-sex marriage.
In a letter to the president released on Monday, actors, business leaders, athletes and media personalities asked Obama to “end discrimination in marriage.”
“We ask you now for your leadership on ending the exclusion of same-sex couples from marriage, an exclusion that harms millions of Americans each day. Whether to end discrimination in marriage is a question America has faced before, and faces again today,” the letter says. “With so many Americans talking it through in heartfelt conversations, it is a question that calls for clarity from the President.”
The letter, signed by media personality Ellen DeGeneres, musician Rufus Wainwright and businessman and philanthropist David Geffen, is part of the pro-gay-marriage organization Freedom to Marry’s “Say I Do” campaign.
Jane Lynch and Anne Hathaway are also listed as signatories. More on Freedom to Marry’s Say I Do campaign here.
Of course those were only a few of the clebreties.
You will notice that they had not yet added My name to the list. But I gladly add it NOW. I totally agree that our beloved President should do as requested and reveal his spoken of evolving in regards to EQUAL MARRIAGE. I beseech you Sir, show your true colors and live up to the words you signed your oath for. Freedom and Liberty for all! Thank you for your exquiste service and heartfelt efforts to better the country… a country that stands for the basic human rights of each individual. The integrity of the office you hold is in every way worthy of your support and initiating of the Federal right to marriage for all citizens. Not a state matter, but a constitutional matter for the justice and liberty for all. Dear Mr. President Barrack Obama, Sir. Thank you! The moral of the people you serve and lead is as equally as important as any other so called emergency. For even the person who least agrees with same sex marriage will be strengthend and bettered by the endorsement of the President since they will simultaneiously understand that “their” personal and individual rights are also important too to the President of the United States of America.
An encouragement to each and every citizen no matter what their private set of beliefs may dictate. The act of non-discrimination in favor of EQAL RIGHTS MARRIAGE will be the credence to your office regarding human rights both in your mother country the USA and abroad.
With great respect and aspiration for EQUALITY.
Charles Wayne Begley