Jennifer Chrisler Quotes on Family (9 Quotes)

We're thrilled to recognize and further thank Capital One Financial for their steadfast support of Family Pride and LGBT parents. Capital One Financial continues to find innovative and creative ways to make LGBT people, particularly LGBT parents, feel valued in the workplace. Their commitment to diversity, inclusion and equality is admirable, and we're proud to honor them with the Corporate Community Responsibility Award.

The truth is that when our families are seen, when our families are visible, it just goes to show how everyday average we really are. We do all the same things that families all across the country do.

Family Pride will continue to work with our partners, including Equality Ohio, to help defeat this anti-LGBT, anti-family measure. Nothing less than the lives of Ohio's most vulnerable children are at stake.

We're helping people see that gay and lesbian couples go to the same things as any other families.

I think we made a clear and definite statement that gay and lesbian families are everywhere in this country, and like all families, we participate in great American events and traditions.

Once again, we are thrilled to be hosting this amazing gathering for LGBT families from across the country. Our families are an important part of the LGBT civil rights battle and they are on the frontlines of educating Americans about the reality of our lives. It is important to give parents and their children a safe place to gather, an opportunity to re-energize and access to the tools we need to create a more just society. I invite everyone who cares about equality for all families to be a part of this historic week.

The message is that gay and lesbian families are everywhere in this country. We care about the same things that all parents care about providing our children with every opportunity and every experience possible.

We're not protesting the president's policies on gay families. We are, however, helping him understand that gay families exist in this country and deserve the rights and protections that all families need.

We as a country need to come to grips with the fact that despite what the conservative movement would have us believe, family is not always a mom and a dad in a married situation in a nuclear family with two kids and a dog and a house in the suburbs with a white picket fence.