Anti-gay extremists are targeting Oregon, pledging to use their secret money to stop us from winning the freedom to marry. In a fundraising email, the anti-gay National Organization for Marriage (NOM) announced the creation of the “Win More States Fund” and specifically described it a “vehicle to allow us to devote even more resources to the cause” of excluding loving and committed couples in Oregon from the freedom to marry.

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NOM is the national organization that runs the campaigns to exclude loving and committed couples from marriage. NOM parachutes into states with bundles of cash, often spending millions of dollars attacking our families.

As Oregonians, we believe in treating others as one would want to be treated, and that that includes allowing civil marriage for gay and lesbian couples. Gay and lesbian couples want to marry for similar reasons as anyone – to make a public promise of love, responsibility and lifetime commitment, to stand in front of family and friends, make a lifetime of commitment, and share the joys and sorrows that life can bring. None of us would want to be told it’s illegal to marry the person we love.