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Studies & Resources

Some of the most useful studies and articles about marriage equality. For links to many more, see Collections of Articles and Research, below.

• History

  • Ken Molberry's "The Freedom To Marry: Rites & Rights,"
    the history of how the legal concepts of marriage have changed and developed over the last six decades - hosted by LMA
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  • The Freedom To Marry: Rites & Rights -- Reading Room
    Ready access to the important court rulings and other documents that brought about change in the rights of couples to legally marry.

• Laws

  • Lambda Legal: Collection of Court Filings in the Washington State Marriage Case
  • The RCW Project 2004: list of Washington State laws contingent on marital status, by Legal Marriage Alliance Of Washington.
    Introduction and Summary
    Table of statutes (MS Excel format)
  • US General Accounting Office: list of 1,138 federal laws contingent on marital status
    Original 1997 Report
    2004 Update

• Economics

  • US Congressional Budget Office: The Potential Budgetary Impact of Recognizing Same-Sex Marriages (2004), showing the benefit to taxpayers if the federal Defense of Marriage Act were repealed.
  • National gay and Lesbian Task Force: Economic Benefits of Marriage Under Federal and Oregon Law
  • Human Rights Campaign Foundation: The Cost of Marriage Inequality to Children and Their Same-Sex Parents
  • Human Rights Campaign Foundation: The Cost of Marriage Inequality to Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Seniors
  • Human Rights Campaign Foundation: The Business Cost Impact of Marriage for Same-Sex Couples

• Diversity

  • National Black Justice Coalition: Black Marriage Equality Supporters
  • National Gay and Lesbian Task Force: African American Leaders Support Marriage Equality - Task Force Quotation Compilation
  • Freedom to Marry: Communities—find out why marriage matters at home or, more specifically, how crucial marriage is for each community listed

• Civil Unions

  • LMA's Friend of the Court Brief in the Washington State Marriage Case: Why civil unions are not enough
  • National Gay and Lesbian Task Force: How Unequal Are Civil Unions? Here Are Just Five Benefits That You Probably Didn't Know About

• Faith Communities

  • Religious Conation for Equality - Washington: Statement of Faith-Based Support for Same-Sex Marriage and List of Signers

• Collections of Articles and Research

  • National Gay and Lesbian Task Force: Marriage and Partnership Recognition - Reports & Research
  • Human Rights Campaign—HRC Marriage Center
  • Freedom to Marry—Get Informed
  • Partners Task Force for Gay & Lesbian Couples
  • Lambda Legal: Marriage Project—Resources