New York Cardinal Timothy Dolan, one of the country's most powerful anti-gay figures, told George Stephanopoulos on Sunday that gays "deserve friendship," not equal rights.

Apparently not all conservative politicians are following Sen. Rob Portman's lead.

Arizona congressman Matt Salmon spoke out in a televised interview telling  viewers that while his youngest son, Matt Jr., is openly gay, Salmon is not in favor of same-sex marriage. 

Swell.

Watch after the jump.

Marie Osmond is currently making the promo rounds for her new memoir, The Key Is Love: My Mother's Wisdom, A Daughter's Gratitude, and she's speaking openly about her gay daughter, Jessica, and her own support for marriage equality.

Marriage equality is a bit of touchy subject for the Osmond family right now. Marie, herself, is a practicing Mormon and her brother Alan actually hosted a "pro-family" rally earlier this week in Utah in support of "traditional" heterosexual marriage. 

See what Marie has to say after the jump. 

We guess she can go to Starbucks...oh wait.

Leesa Dahl, who describes herself as "a pianist in the opera world," was outraged when a Manhattan coffee shop in Harlem called "The Chipped Cup" dared to draw a pink equal sign in solidarity with the marriage equality movement on its sandwich board outside of the door. 

Check out her rant after the jump. (We have a feeling those opera gigs are about to dry up.)

You'd have to be colorblind not to notice the sea of change that flooded Facebook this week.

On Monday, the Human Rights Campaign promoted its red-hued equality sign and asked supporters of marriage equality to make it their profile picture in honor of the Supreme Court hearings; by Wednesday, a large portion of users had made the swap to state their support.

Today, in a rare glimpse at the data behind the scenes of the largest social network, Facebook breaks down the number of users who changed their profile pictures on Tuesday (the day of the Prop 8 hearing at SCOTUS).

Openly gay host of The Talk Sara Gilbert and guest Lily Tomlin both celebrated the outpouring of support for the LGBT community in the midst of this week's Supreme Court cases as well as the prediction that DOMA will be declared unconstitutional. 

We may have gotten a little emotional ourselves. 

Watch after the jump!

Oy. Talk about an embarrassing video that'll come back to haunt you. 

11-year-old Grace Evans testified in front of the Minnesota House Committee on Civil Law regarding why marriage equality shouldn't be legalized. 

We're sure this was in no way prompted by her parents. Grace is apparently afraid that if marriage equality is legalized, then she's at risk of losing her mother--which we figure is probably representative of a much bigger issue at home...

Watch after the jump.

Watching this clip from Piers Morgan Live practically had our head spinning. 

Heritage Foundation Scholar Ryan Anderson made the case for why marriage equality shouldn't be legalized and the kindest thing we can say is that he was...articulate. 

Thankfully, Suze Orman was there to speak on why same-sex marriage should be legalized and provided factual reasons to back up her argument.

Willie Nelson has long been a supporter of LGBT rights, but didn't miss the opportunity this week to restate his allegiance. In an interview with Texas Monthly, Willie showed off his version of the red HRC equality sign that's taken over social networks in honor of marriage equality week at SCOTUS.

Out of all the marriage-equality based scatter-plot matrix graphs that come across our desks daily, today's from Salon might be the best.

Details of the science behind Salon's matrix after the jump.

President Obama spoke with national Spanish language stations late Wednesday when the topic of the Supreme Court marriage hearings came up.

“I think it is time for the justices to examine this issue,” Obama told a Telemundo reporter.

(More after the break)

It comes as no surprise but it is still very welcome that Beyoncé wants gay and lesbian couples to be able to legally marry. The one and only B unveiled her support for marriage equality via an Instagram note that reads: "If you like it you should be able to put a ring on it." Lady B followed the tongue-in-booty-cheek statement with a #wewilluniteformarriageequality hashtag.

Could we love her anymore?!