Actress Natalie Portman and Benjamin
Millepied have urged President Barack Obama to support marriage
equality.
“Natalie Portman and her fiance,
Benjamin Millepied, are in love, and believe all loving couples
should be able to share in the freedom to marry without
discrimination. That's why today they are joining the more than
100,000 people on Freedom to Marry's Say, 'I Do' Open Letter
calling on President Obama to do the right thing and become part of
America's majority for marriage,” said Freedom to Marry President
Evan Wolfson in a statement.
Freedom to Marry's Say I Do
campaign launched in March with the support of actors Anne Hathaway,
Jane Lynch, Martin Sheen, Lily Tomlin, Eric McCormack and Portia
DeGeneres, musicians Melissa Etheridge, Mya and Rufus Wainwright,
playwright Tony Kusher and studio executive David Geffen. Also
included are social media titans Jack Dorsey, creator of Twitter, and
Chris Hughes, co-creator of Facebook, and NFL athletes Brendon
Ayanbadejo of the Baltimore Ravens and Scott Fujita of the Cleveland
Browns.
Caroline Kennedy, the daughter of
former President John F. Kennedy and First Lady Jacqueline Bouvier
Kennedy, became
the 100,000th signer to the letter last month.
Obama has said he personally supports
government recognition of gay unions but not marriage. However, he
recently suggested that gay marriage might be on his second term
agenda.