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Dear Friend,
Yesterday, Sarah Cantor and Brian Real, graduate students in
Maryland, sent Lambda Legal an email letting us know that they and their
friends were promoting a Facebook event they created called “Donate (the
cost of) a Chicken Dinner to Marriage Equality Day”. These students took
action in response to the restaurant chain Chick-fil-A’s anti-gay stance, encouraging Facebook users all around the country to donate $6.50 (the cost of a chicken dinner) to an organization fighting for equality.
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The
swift reaction we have seen to Chick-fil-A’s anti-gay stance has highlighted something Lambda Legal has been saying for some time now: the winds of change are not coming…they’re
already here.
With marriage equality cases pending in Nevada, Illinois and
New Jersey, and the recent announcement by the U.S. Department of Justice asking
the U.S. Supreme Court to hear our case challenging Section 3 of DOMA, it’s
clear that Lambda Legal is “hungry for equality.” We are honored that Sarah, Brian and their
friends included us in “Donate (the cost of) a Chicken Dinner to Marriage
Equality Day”.
Hungry For Equality?: Make Your $6.50 Gift Today!
Our fight for the full civil rights of LGBT people and those
with HIV requires the participation of everyone. Activists like Brian and Sarah
are bringing a unique voice to counter the voices of hate that continue to
stand against equality. The more than 3-dozen companies — including Google,
Microsoft, CBS, Xerox, eBay and other corporations (all much larger than a fast
food chain) — that signed a onto a brief in support of Lambda Legal’s DOMA
challenge are sending the message that discrimination is bad for business.
Lambda Legal supporters that make our groundbreaking legal work possible are
making an investment in equality.
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We still have work to do…we must stay “hungry for equality”
and continue to fight, but the winds are changing and more and more people are
standing on the right side of history.
With warm regards,
Kevin M. Cathcart
Executive Director
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