"This week, the Senate begins debate on the Marriage Protection Amendment [Federal Marriage Amendment]. And I call on the Congress to pass this amendment ..." - June 5th, 2006, 1:45 p.m. EST, White House Press Conference
full-text link: http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2004/02/20040224-2.html
please, please, please take a minute and write to your senators about this (www.senate.gov). we are not second-class citizens, we deserve some fucking rights, and there are MANY other things we need our senators to be focusing on, like maybe gas prices OR THE WAR. i wrote a quick message myself and copy/pasted it to both of my senators. this is an issue that needs to be handled at the state level. ps: if this amendment passes, it will likely affect unmarried HETEROSEXUALS as well. think a few thoughts on it, thanks.
for reference, here's the message i sent to both bill frist and lamar alexander:
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"Mr. Frist/Alexander:
I'm writing to urge you to vote AGAINST the Federal Marriage Amendment. It is highly discriminatory, highly offensive, and does not hold up to the beliefs this country was founded on. It is not up to the Senate to decide who can love who and how they can do it. Let's focus on issues like skyrocketing gas prices instead of hot-button issues that take the heat off of President Bush's ridiculous moral agenda and hold him responsible for the disastrous state this country is in."
full-text link: http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2004/02/20040224-2.html
please, please, please take a minute and write to your senators about this (www.senate.gov). we are not second-class citizens, we deserve some fucking rights, and there are MANY other things we need our senators to be focusing on, like maybe gas prices OR THE WAR. i wrote a quick message myself and copy/pasted it to both of my senators. this is an issue that needs to be handled at the state level. ps: if this amendment passes, it will likely affect unmarried HETEROSEXUALS as well. think a few thoughts on it, thanks.
for reference, here's the message i sent to both bill frist and lamar alexander:
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"Mr. Frist/Alexander:
I'm writing to urge you to vote AGAINST the Federal Marriage Amendment. It is highly discriminatory, highly offensive, and does not hold up to the beliefs this country was founded on. It is not up to the Senate to decide who can love who and how they can do it. Let's focus on issues like skyrocketing gas prices instead of hot-button issues that take the heat off of President Bush's ridiculous moral agenda and hold him responsible for the disastrous state this country is in."
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shirleydanger:
that ban had best not pass...because you dear will be my wifey, like it or not!
necia:
What pisses me off so much about this is not just the nature of the proposed amendment, but also the fact that even its supporters KNOW DAMN WELL THAT IT WILL NOT PASS. It hasn't a snowball's chance in hell of passing. The whole thing is political grandstanding and pandering to bigots, and it infuriates me that we have people dying (and killing) in Iraq and people homeless on our own streets, and Congress is wasting their fucking time on this, this symbolic gesture to please their homophobic, sexually prejudiced constituents. 