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Please contact your senators
Front-Ranger:
The vote is today on the Federal Marriage Amendment that would write discrimination into the Constitution of the United States. All U.S. citizens, please contact your senators and express your outrage. The Constitution is a Bill of Rights, not a Bill of Exclusions! Check out this site for more information:
http://www.hrc.org/voteno/voteno.htm
Front-Ranger:
I don't do this very often...but Bump!!
bbm_stitchbuffyfan:
I just wrote to my bigot of a senator. He better damn well read that letter!
Front-Ranger:
I don't have all the details yet, but word is this shame of a bill was resoundingly defeated yesterday. I'm going to write to thank my senator Ken Salazar (no thanks to the other one, homophobic Allard) --and a note of thanks from everyone would put the final nails in the coffin. Take that, Bush!! You won't have equality in marriage to kick around any more!!
nakymaton:
http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/06/07/same.sex.marriage/index.html
I'm going to thank Salazar, as well. And I'm thinking of writing letters to newspapers, because I am soooooooo sick of hearing this absurdity about protecting marriage and kids. Tell you what, I'm married, and I've got a kid. Protecting our marriage is, frankly, nobody's business but ours; nobody else's marriage can threaten my own. And I think my kid is far more threatened by a world where "freedom" is used to justify taking rights from individuals (and from the states, as well; the amendment would prevent state legislatures from changing the rules if this country comes to its senses in the future).
I'm also wondering which groups are most effective in fighting the various anti-same-sex-marriage amendments on a state-by-state basis -- especially in rural areas. You know, Front-Ranger, that there's a group trying to get a referendum for a constitutional amendment in our state onto the ballot, don't you? And that our state constitution is easy to amend, but hard to fix once it's been screwed up with an amendment?
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