in here, medical history follows you. even when you re away from home. it s the at&t network a network of possibilities, creating and integrating solutions, helping business, and the world.work. rethink possible. louis j.marinelli is a conservative republican who spent much of last summer leading a bus tour around the country. the tour was led by the national organization for marriage and it had one goal, to fight any further legalization of same sex marriage. prior to that, marinelli had been leading his onanty gay marriage organization called protect marriage, one man, one woman. last summer he actually drove the bus on the national organization for marriage s summer marriage tour and blogged about the whole thing.
national organization for marriage and says he regrets the time he spent working against marriage equality. his blog post ends this way. my name is louis j.marinelli, a conservative republican, and i now support full serve ilmarriage equality. the constitution calls for nothing less. there? there? how about eating soup to get there? campbell s soups fill you with good nutrition, farm-grown ingredients, and can help you keep a healthy weight. campbell s. it s amazing what soup can do.
he severed his ties with the national organization for marriage and says he regrets the time he spent working against marriage equality. his blog post ends this way. my name is louis j.marinelli, a conservative republican, and i now support full civil marriage equality. the constitution calls for nothing less. nice. oh. oh! oh! red! red! red! yes! yes! come on! oh. no! oh. bummer. [children shouting] hoops? yeah. sure. sure. announcer: moms everywhere are finding ways to keep kids active and healthy. works every time.
courage campaign s groups. it shows louis marinelli sitting on a bench when someone from the courage campaign approached. this is one of the moments that began to change the mind of conservative republican activist louis marinelli about the fight he was fighting, before he ultimately changed sides. along with today s letter written for the courage campaign, louis has published a post on his own personal blog recounting how he felt by the end of last summer s bus tour. even though i had been confronted by the protesters throughout the marriage tour, the lesbian and gay people whom i made a profession out of opposing became real people for me almost instantly. for the first time i had empathy for them and asked myself what i was doing. he s rewritten his understanding of the issue of gay marriage. he actually listened to his opponents and changed his mind.
summer marriage tour and blogged about the whole thing. he wasn t alone in blogging about the bus tour. staffers with the courage campaign based in los angeles also followed the tour, blogging and shooting videos of the rallies. marinelli got to know people from the courage campaign, some of the very people whose marriage rights he was working to take away. in a letter released today, for the courage campaign, louis marinelli wrote, throughout the summer tour, courage campaign s arisha and anthony approached me several times. i remember sitting on a bench in st. louis, missouri, alone with anthony for a few minutes. it was then that i empathized with anthony and who he was for the first time. i understood that my work wasn t affecting faceless, nameless, political targets, but instead good people like anthony, who just wanted to participate in all that america is. this is video posted on youtube from last summer by one of the