Defeat the Phelps Petition

[MuseRider]

For all who are interested. I have the contact info so PM me if you are. There is an address at the bottom for anyone who might wish to donate. Hopefully this group will be able to stay together and help with the state wide vote against gay marraige when it comes up again.
I will be there and will report back.

Subject: Come to the Campaign Kick-Off January 31 to Defeat the Phelps
Petition

Hello:

After the city council voted in November to not allow discrimination based
on sexual orientation in the city's hiring and employment practices, Fred
Phelps and the Westboro Baptist Church started a petition to get the law
repealed and bar the city for 10 years from protecting people in Topeka from
discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity or expression.
He and his church members used misleading tactics to get enough signatures
on the petition to put his proposed discriminatory law to a vote of the
people. Most likely, the ballot initiative will be on the April 5th ballot.

We cannot let Fred Phelps run our town into the ground!! We know that the
majority of Topekans are fair-minded. In fact, 62% of them support
protecting people from discrimination based on sexual orientation in all
areas, not just city hiring practices. We need to educate these people
about what the ballot initiative will do, and get them to vote "no".

But to do this, WE NEED YOUR HELP!

We are kicking off our campaign against the ballot initiative on January
31st at 6:30pm. We are having a meeting to bring everyone up to speed about
the measure and get people on board to help defeat it. The meeting will:
1) Educate everyone about the ballot initative
2) Lay out the campaign strategy
3) Put out a request for help with various aspects of the campaign including
volunteering, fundraising, etc..

++ PLEASE JOIN US ON JANUARY 31st at 6:30PM FOR THIS CAMPAIGN KICKOFF!! ++

The meeting will be held at Central Congregational Church at Huntoon and
Buchanan.

Please contact Erin to let her know if you
can bring a snack to share!

Pass this information along to all of your fair-minded friends and ask them
to come as well.

*****If you can't attend********
If you can't make it on January 31st but would like to volunteer between now
and April please contact Erin at the above contact information.
Additionally, even though volunteer time is our greatest need we also need
money to finance the campaign. If you are able to send a donation, please
make it out to Equal Justice Coalition and send it to:

Equal Justice Coalition
PO Box 5806
Topeka, KS 66605

[MuseRider]

1. One kick.

[Walt Starr]

2. Kicked

Bookmarked it earlier and thought I should come back and kick it every now and again.

[MuseRider]

3. Thanks Walt!

One more just so people know we may be rubes out here but we are not all hateful rubes, lol.