Conservative groups, lawmakers seek end of gay marriages in federal court.
BOSTON
(AP) A coalition of conservative groups and lawmakers asked
a federal appeals court Monday to stop gay marriages, saying
the state's highest court overstepped its bounds by changing
the traditional meaning of marriage when it cleared the way
for same-sex couples to wed.
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Recent
Editorials in the Patriot Ledger.
PLEASE!...
Write editorials your local papers! Especially the
Patriot Ledger if you are on the South Shore of
Boston. I have been sending this update for over 2
months now and I am aware of only 1 person on this list who
has had an editorial printed in that time period. Most
papers will publish your letters every 30 days.
Check
out what has been recently published.
Same-sex
marriage
I just want Attorney General Reilly to block any of these
so-called marriages that he can. We've got to get
serious. This is not right and we should block them
all.
ALBERT NOGLER
Quincy
Romney
and gays
I think Romney should by all means not recognize marriages
from out of state couples who got married in
Massachusetts. Actually I don't think there hould be
any same-sex marriages. That's my opinion and I'll never
change.
CATHERINE WHEELER
Randolph
Smoking,
gay marriage
An Article in the May 24 Ledger concerning towns that ban
outside smoking quoted a leader of an anti-smoking group
as stating one of the reasons for such actions was
"...it changes societal norms when children go to the
park or to family places and see people smoking."
Let me get this straight -- it's bad for kid's to see
people smoking, but its OK for them to be bombarded with
multiple images of same gender couples engaged in
lip-locks by every media outlet they encounter?
God help us.
CHUCK WALLACE
Scituate
Had
enough yet?... There are MORE... Our bigoted and ignorant
opposition has been getting a lot of press lately.
Please remember that there still is a chance that the
general public could vote to revoke our civil rights in
2006.
PLEASE!... Write editorials your local papers! Especially
the Patriot Ledger if you are on the South Shore of
Boston. I have been sending this update for over 2
months now and I am aware of only 1 person on this list who
has had an editorial printed.
Here's
another, just to prove my point:
Marriage is primarily a matter of
biology
By MICHAEL JOVANOVIC, Quincy
Paul J. Meoni, Democrat for Massachusetts State
Representative.
Paul Meoni is the gentleman from
Randolph, MA, that is challenging my HORRIBLE State
Representative, Bruce Ayers for his seat in the MA House of
Representatives.
Paul's
webpage is now up and running.
Please visit http://www.electmeoni.com/
to
learn how you can support his campaign to replace my local
representative who has consistently fought to deny my civil
rights.
Tell
Mitt Romney To Stop His Anti-Gay Crusade.
Mitt
Romney continues his rampage against same-sex couples.
He is using a forgotten 1913 law with a racist history and
applying it in a
discriminatory way to keep out-of-state same-sex couples
from marrying. And, he said he would veto attempts to
repeal the law! Please click here to tell Romney to
stop his anti-gay crusade.
http://EqualMarriage.org/romney.php
May 17th was a wonderful day. Throughout the state
committed same-sex couples filed their intentions and then
got married. These marriages help same-sex couples and
their children and are good for the commonwealth.
Nonetheless, our governor continues to be single-mindedly
focused
on taking away these rights by passing an anti-gay amendment
to the Massachusetts constitution. He needs to hear
from people--gay and straight--to stop this attack on
committed couples.
We've made it very easy for you to tell Governor Romney to
stop:
http://EqualMarriage.org/romney.php
Massachusetts has many challenges--job loss, health needs,
and a state budget that has not been finalized.
Shouldn't Governor Romney focus his energies on these issues
instead of trying to stop committed couples from getting
married? Tell Governor Romney his priorities are off
-- you can write him here:
http://EqualMarriage.org/romney.php
Governor Romney needs to hear from you!
Thank you,
The Freedom To Marry Coalition
Please Read, Take Action, and Forward On!
http://EqualMarriage.org/romney.php
March
with MassEquality in the MA Pride Parade.
Thank you for helping us achieve what seemed impossible. You are receiving this message because you signed a postcard to your legislator or signed up for our list on a busy street corner or at a MassEquality event. Your efforts have made a real difference.
On May 17th Massachusetts became the first state in the Union to end discrimination against same-sex couples. At MassEquality, we are focused on making sure that mean-spirited attempts to take away equal marriage rights in Massachusetts are not successful. We cannot allow our opponents to write discrimination into our Constitution. Over the coming months and years, we'll need your help.
This past March, we came very close to defeating a proposed constitutional amendment that would undermine this historic Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruling on marriage equality. Next year, we'll face this amendment in the legislature again. With your support, we will defeat it and ensure that true equality for same-sex couples is here to stay in Massachusetts.
Of course, we're not waiting to start our efforts. Within the week, we'll be launching our Summer of Equality program -- designed to identify even more supporters of same-sex marriage and to mobilize our members to work in important political campaigns. We're also going to be very busy at Boston Pride celebrations. In fact, we'd like you to march with us in the Boston Pride Parade this Saturday. You can register to march with us or to volunteer this week by visiting
http://www.massequality.org/pride.php .
Tell-a-friend!