Being students is a sign of equality, he says.

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The Human Rights Campaign, an advocacy group, asked Facebook and Twitter users to change their public profile images to a red equals sign, in support of marriage equality.

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Using its data crunching capacity, Facebook estimated that 2.7 million Facebook users changed their profile picture to a red equality sign in support of the proposition being argued before the Supreme Court - that government bans on gay marriage deprive our gay brothers of sisters of equal protection under the law.

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