Please sign this Marriage Equality Petition

[Ian David]

Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2005
From: Freedom to Marry Coalition of MA <[e-mail]>

Equality Petition

With your help, this petition will be the largest show of support for equal marriage rights in Massachusetts yet assembled.

MassEquality is gathering this petition to present to legislators who will soon consider a proposed constitutional amendment that would take away equal marriage rights. If legislators vote the way they did last year, equal marriage rights for gay and lesbian couples will be put up for a popular vote.

Click here:
http://www.massequality.org/May17/petition/index.php?source=FTMC


The Freedom to Marry Coalition, along with our MassEquality
coalition partners, will deliver the Petition to legislators
before the constitutional convention at which the Massachusetts
legislature will consider an amendment to take away the right of
same-sex couples to legally marry.

Forward this email to your friends and family, co-workers and
neighbors to let them know that you support marriage equality
and provide them an opportunity to show their support as well.
All signers can have their name and town appear on the web site
as a signer of the Petition.

Click here:
http://www.massequality.org/May17/petition/index.php?source=FTMC

It's imperative that we show legislators and the public that
support for marriage equality is a community standard. The irony
is that although polls are increasingly showing support for
marriage equality, people remain unwilling to express their
support because the issue remains controversial. We will be
successful in our bid to preserve equal marriage rights only if
we talk about the issue with everyone we know and ask them, too,
to talk about this important human rights issue.

Click here:
http://www.massequality.org/May17/petition/index.php?source=FTMC

So, please sign the Petition today and ask as your friends and
family to do the same. And talk about marriage equality whenever
you have the chance. Gay or straight, we all have personal
stories to tell about why we believe in preserving the freedom
to marry.

For all you do in support of marriage equality, thank you.

Josh Friedes
Advocacy Directors

Click here:
http://www.massequality.org/May17/petition/index.php?source=FTMC

[DanCa]

1. Done

Keep up the fight - Danny

[paineinthearse]

2. Signed, but

The best way to influence your rep and senator is to meet with them regularly. Reps cover 3-5 towns and senators maybe 2-3x that. They are reachable in their Boston and home district offices.

To get contact info, go to www.mass.gov, then to the legislature area.

[TaleWgnDg]

3. done . . . in addition, a ltr written on my professional ltrhead . . .

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done . . . in addition, a ltr written on my professional ltrhead . . . to my own state Rep and Senator, and to those voting in favor of placing discrimination into our Massachusetts constitution.

For a list of who voted for and against placing discrimination into our Massachusetts constitution in the last Constitutional Convention in 2004, the BosGlobe published the voting list here. (A "Y" vote means that person voted FOR discrimination and a "N" vote means that person voted AGAINST discrimination)

Even if your state Rep and/or Senator voted against an amendment last year during the 2004 Massachusetts Constitutional Convention, it's good to write to him/her to let them know that you stand firmly with them!



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