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Mission accomplished, Love Makes a Family plans to close by Ethan Jacobs
associate editorWednesday Apr 1, 2009 With marriage equality secure in Connecticut, Love Makes a Family announced today that the organization will shut down at the end of the year. Love Makes a Family is a statewide coalition formed in 1999, and it has been the leading marriage equality advocacy group in the state. In a statement released by the organization, executive director Anne Stanback said that Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders’ (GLAD) win in its state marriage suit means that Love Makes a Family’s mission has been accomplished.
"With GLAD’s victory in the Kerrigan Supreme Court decision and with the knowledge that same-sex couples’ right to marry is secure, we can officially close our doors at the end of the year. We want to conclude our work on a high note: celebrating our successes, completing our advocacy work over the next nine months, and sharing our organizational resources with others to further empower the Connecticut community for the future," said Stanback.
From now through December 31 the organization will work to ensure the enactment of a bill to codify the state high court’s marriage decision in the law. Love Makes a Family will also lobby the state’s congressional delegation to repeal the Defense of Marriage Act, advocate at the state level for the passage of a transgender non-discrimination bill, and document its strategies to share them with marriage equality groups in other states. The group will maintain a political action committee to work to elect pro-LGBT lawmakers to the state legislature.
Love Makes a Family originally formed to pass legislation to allow adoption by same-sex couples. Once that law passed in 2000 the organization turned its focus to marriage. Stanback will step down from Love Makes a Family on July 1, after nearly nine years with the organization.
Ethan Jacobs can be reached at ejacobs@baywindows.com
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