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OR: Basic Rights Oregon Won’t Take Marriage Equality to Ballot in 2012

Wednesday, November 9th, 2011

Oregon Gay MarriageAfter a three-year campaign to build support for legalizing same-sex marriage, Oregon’s largest gay rights group has decided against putting the issue up for a vote in 2012.

Feedback from an online survey of over 1,000 people, door-to-door canvassing, community meetings and two statewide television advertising campaigns overwhelmingly say, “we must allow our education work to continue,” Basic Rights Oregon announced Wednesday.

“As far as we have come, which as been significant, we don’t yet have the kind of consensus that would indicate a reasonable expectation of success,” said Jeana Frazzini, executive director.

Full Story from Oregon Live

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OR: Basic Rights Oregon Considers 2012 Marriage Equality Ballot Measure

Sunday, October 16th, 2011

Oregon Gay MarriageVictoria Smith-Weiland isn’t sure how many hours she has been working at a phone bank calling Oregonians about gay marriage over the past two years. “Maybe 30, 40, or even 50″ three-hour shifts, she said. “I’ve completely lost track.”

One of about 15 volunteers intermittently staffing the phone bank at Basic Rights Oregon’s small office in downtown Eugene, the 42-year-old believes that her personal story has helped her connect with the strangers on the other end of the line.

Smith-Weiland has been in a relationship with her partner, Nicole, for 13 years. The couple, who have a daughter, are active in St. Mary’s Episcopal Church. And, in February 2008, they were one of 85 local couples to officially declare their domestic partnership on the first day they legally could.

Full Story from the Register Guard

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OR: Basic Rights Oregon Forms Advisory Group to Explore 2012 Marriage Equality Legislation

Tuesday, September 13th, 2011

Oregon Gay MarriageAs 2012 — and its elections — inch closer, Basic Rights Oregon has convened a group of community leaders and campaign professionals to help determine whether to take marriage-equality legislation to the ballot next year.

Advice from the advisory group, along with input from the LGBT and allied community, will be used by BRO’s board of directors to make a final decision in late October or early November about whether to begin gathering signatures for a freedom to marry ballot initiative for 2012s general election.

Full Story from Just Out

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OR: Basic Rights Oregon Still Considering 2012 Initiative

Monday, August 15th, 2011

Oregon Gay MarriageA clarification from Basic Rights Oregon:

Statement from Jeana Frazzini, Executive Director of Basic Rights Oregon:

An article by the Salem Statesman Journal inadvertently implied that Basic Rights Oregon has already decided to gather signatures for a 2012 ballot measure, while in fact we do not expect to make this decision until later this year. In the meantime, we continue our work to educate the public about why civil marriage matters to caring and committed same-sex couples.

Full Story from AmericaBlog

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OR: Gay Rights Group to Gather Signatures for 2012 Marriage Equality Campaign

Sunday, August 14th, 2011

Oregon Gay Marriage InitiativeThe 2012 general elections may be more than a year away, but Basic Rights Oregon — the state’s largest gay-rights organization — already is planning a voter-education campaign on same-sex marriage.

The group plans to begin collecting signatures in October for a possible 2012 ballot campaign, said Jeana Frazzini, executive director of Basic Rights Oregon.

The announcement was made during a Garden Party fundraiser in South Salem benefiting the organization.

Full Story from The Statesman Journal

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OR: Gay Rights Group Launches New Marriage Equality TV Campaign

Wednesday, March 30th, 2011

LGBT advocacy group Basic Rights Oregon has launched a new TV ad campaign statewide (you’ll see their spot during GLEE tonight) that aims to build support for gay marriage in Oregon.

Unlike the ad Basic Rights put out last year, this one uses the word “gay”. It’s framed around a straight middle-aged looking couple talking about how they came to support “gay and lesbian marriage” based on their values of “treating others how you’d want to be treated.”

I think it’s pretty smart and could play well to the more conservative, religious audiences.

Full Story from The Portland Mercury

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Oregon: Basic Rights Oregon Works to Change Hearts and Minds

Thursday, August 26th, 2010

Thirty years ago, Candace Lightner’s 13-year-old daughter was killed by a drunken driver while she was walking down the street near her Fair Oaks, Calif., home. Soon after, Lightner learned that the driver had previously been arrested five times for driving while intoxicated.

Enraged, Lightner, who had no previous experience in politics, decided she was going to change American attitudes about the dangers of drunken driving. Within three years, virtually every state in the country had a strict drunken driving law as a result of a hearts-and-minds campaign undertaken by the organization Lightner formed – Mothers Against Drunk Driving.

On an individual level, changing someone’s mind can seem nearly impossible. But in politics, experts say, given money, passion and patience, nearly anything is possible. That’s exactly what the people at Basic Rights Oregon, the state’s leading same-sex marriage advocates, are counting on.

When a federal judge ruled three weeks ago that a gay marriage ban passed by California voters in 2008 was unconstitutional, Basic Rights had fresh ammunition for a public education campaign it had begun last winter. The campaign includes direct-mail brochures to Oregon households, television and radio ads and hundreds of volunteers going door to door.

Full Story from the Portland Tribune

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OR: Basic Rights Oregon Starts 3 Week Ad Campaign

Monday, July 26th, 2010

If you live in Oregon and oppose same-sex marriage, gay-rights supporters will be trying to change your mind – and ultimately reverse a state ban on gay marriage – with a three-week advertising campaign. Basic Rights Oregon, the state’s largest gay-rights group, last week began airing 30-second ads on various cable television stations covering Ashland, Cottage Grove, Florence, Eugene, Corvallis, Albany and Coos, Clatsop and Washington counties. The ads are expected to cost several hundred thousand dollars and reach about 300,000 people.

In addition, the group is mailing 50,000 brochures to households within those areas that explain why gay and lesbian couples want to marry.

“Our hope is to reach many more people with the message and continue to inspire those one-on-one conversations that we feel are critical to building understanding and support for the freedom to marry,” said Jeana Frazzini, executive director of Basic Rights Oregon.

Full Story from Basic Rights Oregon

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