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The couple, who have children in their 30s, took part Tuesday in a demonstration sponsored by the Foundation for Family and Marriage Equality, a Houston-based group that seeks legal rights for same-sex couples. Parker is one of the chairs of the Mayors Freedom to Marry, a group seeking to secure equal rights of marriage for gay couples. Parker has said that it is not her role to fight for an amendment to the Texas Constitution to override the state's defense of marriage act or to win a ballot referendum to overturn it.