This Spring issue of AtMP's newsletter is the first since the Alternatives to Marriage Project took on advocacy functions for Unmarried America. Perhaps it is appropriate, then, that this season's writers seem to celebrate singlehood. AtMP board member Meaghan Lamarre describes her gratitude for an organization that is supporting her current choice to be single. Cari Carpenter worries in her diary that to hold a marriage license in her hand is, for her, "the ethical equivalent of a briar patch." And in "Evidence Contradicts the Myth of Selfish Singles," board member Jo VanEvery reminds us of the tremendous commitments single people can and do make to society at large as well as to their friends and extended family members. Aided by the experience of new executive director Lisa-Nicolle Grist, who is excited by AtMP's mission and ability to bridge the straight and GLBT communities, AtMP promises to be stronger than ever in its fight against marital status discrimination, because it affects all unmarried people.
-Karen Sosnoski