IMPORTANT UPDATE ON THE FEDERAL MARRIAGE AMENDMENT

[DaveSZ]

IMPORTANT UPDATE ON THE FEDERAL MARRIAGE AMENDMENT
Dear ######,

Debate on the Federal Marriage Amendment in the U.S. Senate has begun. But I must share with you some information so that when the vote is taken, you will know exactly what it means.

The FMA will probably not get the necessary two-thirds vote required for a constitutional amendment to pass. In fact, there is a possibility that it may not even get a simple majority.

I urge you, DO NOT BE DISCOURAGED! This is only the beginning of a long fight for the very foundation of Western Civilization. One of the primary purposes of this vote is to make public the position of each Senator. There is a general feeling that some Senators will have to be voted out of office before the FMA can pass.

And, despite all the rhetoric by some Senators as to why they voted against the FMA, the bottom line is this: A vote against the FMA is a vote for homosexual marriage. A vote for the FMA is a vote for traditional marriage.

The Democratic leadership in the Senate has made a deal with the homosexual activists that they will kill the bill in return for homosexual financial support and votes. They are working hand in hand to do that. Their desire is to get a federal judge to strike all marriage laws from the books in all 50 states. The ACLU and other groups have already filed suits in several states to strike down marriage laws. Homosexual leaders have promised to “out” homosexual staff members of Senators who vote for the FMA.

Please don’t think that we have lost if the FMA isn’t passed. This will be a long battle and the outcome will determine the kind of society our children and grandchildren will live in. I am greatly encouraged by the growing involvement of God-fearing people that I have seen in the last two weeks. I am hopeful that the “sleeping giant” is waking up.

I am committed for the long haul. I hope that you are also. Too much is riding on the outcome. Here is what you can do right now:

Take Action
Pray
If you haven’t already signed the petition in support of the FMA, click here to do so.
Call your two Senators if you have not already done so. You can reach both Senators by calling 1-202-224-3121. For information on where your Senators stand, and for local office numbers and toll-free numbers, click here. We will be continually updating this information.
Please forward this email to your friends and urge them to get involved.
After the vote, we will provide a list of those Senators who vote for homosexual marriage (against the FMA) and those who voted for traditional marriage (for the FMA).

David, your continued involvement in this battle is very much needed! Please stay active and involved. Thank you and God bless you.

Sincerely,

Donald E. Wildmon, Founder and Chairman
American Family Association

[rawtribe]

1. Take action send this message

http://www.hrcactioncenter.org/campaign/senate_oppose_fma


To use the Constitution to discriminate against any group of people is shameful. It is neither compassionate nor conservative. It is a radical position that would insert discrimination into the document that has guaranteed and expanded liberty and equality for over 200 years.

The U.S. Constitution should not be amended to limit the rights of a group of people. Further, the power to regulate marriage and the granting of civil marriage licenses is a power that has historically been reserved to the states. A constitutional amendment to prohibit governmental recognition of same-sex relationships would take this power away from states.

The amendment would do much more than define marriage. Leading legal scholars agree that the amendment could forever invalidate civil unions or other legal protections for same-sex couples -- such as the right to visit a partner in the hospital or to receive partner health benefits -- even if state legislatures passed them and voters approved them.

The rights and responsibilities of marriage, other forms of relationship recognition like domestic partnerships and civil unions, and basic civil rights protections are essential components that make all families, including families headed by same-sex couples, safer and more secure. Marriage licenses, which are granted by the state, and religious marriage, are two separate things. Religious institutions will never be forced to bless relationships with which they disagree, just as today religious institutions can refuse to marry couples of different faiths or individuals who have been divorced.

Please oppose any attempt to build discrimination into the very document that should protect everyone and please oppose any other legislation designed to prohibit civil, secular recognition of same-sex relationships. I look forward to hearing from you on this extremely important issue.

[no_hypocrisy]

2. Real purpose for the vote: target the legislators who vote against it and

let their opponents use the vote as rhetoric to get the public to vote them out of office. If they can.

[Deja Q]

3. On this wonderful "western civilization" and who the creep should fear...

Evolution made civilization steward of this planet. A hundred thousand years later, the steward stood before evolution not helper but destroyer, not healer but parasite. So evolution withdrew its gift, passed civilization by, rescued the planet from intelligence and handed it to love. ~Richard Bach

Civilization: a thin veneer over barbarianism. ~John M. Shanahan, The Most Brilliant Thoughts of All Time (In Two Lines or Less)

Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity. ~Thor Heyerdahl, Fatu-Hiva

Civilization is what makes you sick. ~Paul Gauguin

The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Civilization... wrecks the planet from seafloor to stratosphere. ~Richard Bach

Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers. ~Abraham Joshua Heschel

Society is a made-up formula of what we are supposed to be, kept alive by those who believe in it.... I laugh in the ugly face of society, with all its fabricated dimensions. ~Christina Gerogiannis

What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance. ~Henry Havelock Ellis

Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization. ~Edmond and Jules de Goncourt, Journal, 3 September 1855



More, many more... http://www.quotegarden.com/civilization.html

That creep has the nerve to talk about the type of country our children and grandchildren will face? They wouldn't know if a gay couple moved in unless they were flambouyant and loud about it. What * is doing to the world NOW is of infinitely greater concern and fear. He should focus on Bush who is sodomizing the world...

[Zen]

4. I get extremely angry when I read such vicious stuff.

Why they would want to enrage their opponents is beyond me - reading crap like this makes me want to work all the harder to see these unethical fear-mongering cowards go down.

[theHandpuppet]

5. Please ACT NOW!

Visit http://hrc.org/ for more information on how you can become involved.

In Germany they first came for the Communists
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist.
Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew.
Then they came for the trade unionists
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Catholics
and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant.
Then they came for me
and by that time no one was left to speak up

-- Reverend Martin Niemöller, a pastor in the German Confessing Church who spent seven years in a concentration camp.