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150,000
SIGNATURES!
THE
TIDE IS TURNING!..
...but
is it turning fast enough?
(...ONLY with your help!)
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150,000
SIGNATURES!
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PLEASE
HELP THE PUBLIC KNOW THE REAL NUMBERS!
The
press continues to misquote the inflated number of 170,000
signatures on the discriminating petition.
ONLY
120k petition signatures were certified (thousands
of which have been identified as fraudulent)
This number should get out to the press and to the
public!...
MA
VOLUNTEERS,
not hired "bait and switch" professionals from
out of state, have
delivered 150,000 signatures to our legislature in support of
marriage equality!
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THANK YOU
AGAIN TALLESSYN! for ANOTHER letter of equality
in the
Patriot Ledger...
Other
friends,
Please take
note, that you don't need to be from my area of MA anymore to get a letter
to the editor published.
PLEASE help to counter the anti-gay comments being printed and to help
educate the general public. You can take a look at the recent letters in
my "Editorial
Watch" below for inspiration then submit
your own letters.
I have one
other significant update this week... I have learned that
MassEquality has delivered 150,000 postcards for equality to the MA
State House. We can now counter the anti-gay argument that "the
people have spoken and want to vote." That is, that for the
first time since the January 2, vote in favor of the amendment to take
away our marriage protections, I
HAVE FINALLY REGAINED HOPE that
we can win this fight, without having to worry about our dignity being
put up for a popular vote.
Though I
repeat, this cannot happen without the help of every person on this
list... Inside mass and out- Gay or straight. We NEED to send a public
message to our legislators that majority is against this
amendment.
To those
who have been working hard all along, PLEASE don't give up. We
need to keep trying, though our focus needs to slightly shift. We
need to start encouraging and carefully pressuring friends, family and colleagues
to help us.
If you have
comments/feedback that I should include next week, please feel
free to use the feedback link to the left.
Lexington
parents to appeal ruling
 Two
families who unsuccessfully sued Lexington town officials, accusing
them of trying to “indoctrinate” their children at the Estabrook
Elementary School with the idea that “homosexuality and same-sex
marriages are moral” have appealed U.S. District Court Judge Mark L.
Wolf’s Feb. 23 ruling. David and Tonia Parker and Rob and Robin
Wirthlin alleged in their lawsuit that Lexington Public Schools
violated their right to freedom of religion and to direct the
upbringing of their children by including material in the classroom
that conflicted with their religious beliefs. In dismissing their
lawsuit, Wolf ruled that the Constitution does not give parents the
right to determine the curriculum in the public schools. The appeal is
expected to be filed in the U.S. First Circuit Court of Appeals. (Read
More)
Progressive Christians see hope for gay marriage
 UA progressive Christian organization held a winter symposium on Feb. 23-24, at First Church in Cambridge, offering up an ecumenical, liberal vision of the Christian tradition, gay marriage, and political action - one not often heard in public discourse.
Incorporated in Massachusetts, the Institute for Progressive Christianity (IPC), an academic think tank, sponsored the event, which drew about 50 people.
"The message of Christianity has to be for full freedom and equality," said Richard Parker a lecturer at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government, who also urged attendees "to be who you are, the emerging majority of progressive Christianity" and not to be defined "in reaction to the last 30 years" of the Religious Right's ascendancy in American politics.
(Read
More)
PLEASE HELP
by forwarding to me (sscivilrights@comcast.net,)
"letters to the editor" and "news editorials" from
any/all sources possible so that we can keep track and try to
respond.
BOSTON GLOBE EDITORIAL: A shameful reversal of rights
PLEASE CONTACT SENATOR MORRISSEY'S OFFICE
AND ASK HIM TO REJECT THE AMENDMENT ON ITS
MERITS.
(Click here for his contact information)
Contact
Your Legislators... REGULARLY!
Contact
your legislators
Its now time where new people need to step up. Legislators
already know the names of those who have been dedicated to this fight
so far and seem to be taking them/us for granted. WE NEED NEW
PEOPLE TO CONTACT LEGISLATORS!.. AND SUBMIT LETTERS TO THE
PRESS... From gay AND STRAIGHT folks alike.
Learn
about your legislators
View
the 2006 votes [pdf]
Write
your local newspaper... REGULARLY!
Important debates happen in your local newspaper.
Help us spread the word about marriage equality.
Write
your newspaper
Anti-gay groups have been watching the editorial section of the
South Shore's Patriot Ledger and noticing that letters WERE
starting to lean
in our favor. Since my last newsletter, 3 anti-gay letters have
been published that need our response... if 3 are published against us,
then we need to strive for 6 more for us. We NEED to send a public
message to our legislators that majority is against this
amendment. I cannot stress enough, that it is the legislators in
this area that a critical to killing the amendment. PLEASE WRITE
IN... OR... Ghost write for friends and submit for them (with their
permission of course as they will need to respond with a final OK when
the paper contacts
them)
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