Please Help Us Defeat the Terminator
Below is the e-mail I've sent out to family and friends -- hey, I had to do something:
Last week the California legislature became the first in the United States to vote for marriage equality by passing the Religious Freedom and Civil Marriage Protection Act. Immediately, Gov. Schwarzenegger (oh, how humiliating just to type that title before that name) announced he would veto the legislation based on "the will of the people" -- the same people who expressed their will by electing the representatives who passed the marriage equality legislation! This legislation is so mainstream, even our Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante supports it.
What Arnold is hiding behind is the five year-old Prop 22, which, to this state's shame, "only" prohibits California from recognizing marriages it doesn't like from other states. It has no applicability to marriage equality in California and the California Supreme Court recently ruled it unconstitutional, anyway (imagine -- as if all Americans are supposed to be equal!). So whose will is this that Arnold claims to be following?
The lack of marriage equality denies over 1,000 rights to committed same-sex couples and most adversely affects children, the elderly, the sick and the disabled. Marriage inequality is cruelty at its worst. It keeps people from their spouse's deathbed, it robs them of their children, and it withholds from them money and services which their taxes have paid for. It denies American citizens aid and comfort at the worst times of their lives -- aid and comfort non-same-sex couples and their children take for granted and would never consider living without.
YOUR HELP IS NEEDED NOW. If you or the LGBT people who are your friends and family are to have a hope of ever attaining full citizenship in this country, you MUST contact the governor's office NOW.
1) Go to: http://www.govmail.ca.gov/ Be sure to click the button for "supporting" and select the tab for "Same Gender Marriage" before writing your comments.
2) Write the governor directly at: governor@governor.ca.gov
3) Phone him at: 916-445-2841
4) Fax him at: 916-445-4633
Even one e-mail or phone call could make the difference. Show Arnold that family values apply to ALL families and help us turn back this veto while there's still time. Thank you!
Last week the California legislature became the first in the United States to vote for marriage equality by passing the Religious Freedom and Civil Marriage Protection Act. Immediately, Gov. Schwarzenegger (oh, how humiliating just to type that title before that name) announced he would veto the legislation based on "the will of the people" -- the same people who expressed their will by electing the representatives who passed the marriage equality legislation! This legislation is so mainstream, even our Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante supports it.
What Arnold is hiding behind is the five year-old Prop 22, which, to this state's shame, "only" prohibits California from recognizing marriages it doesn't like from other states. It has no applicability to marriage equality in California and the California Supreme Court recently ruled it unconstitutional, anyway (imagine -- as if all Americans are supposed to be equal!). So whose will is this that Arnold claims to be following?
The lack of marriage equality denies over 1,000 rights to committed same-sex couples and most adversely affects children, the elderly, the sick and the disabled. Marriage inequality is cruelty at its worst. It keeps people from their spouse's deathbed, it robs them of their children, and it withholds from them money and services which their taxes have paid for. It denies American citizens aid and comfort at the worst times of their lives -- aid and comfort non-same-sex couples and their children take for granted and would never consider living without.
YOUR HELP IS NEEDED NOW. If you or the LGBT people who are your friends and family are to have a hope of ever attaining full citizenship in this country, you MUST contact the governor's office NOW.
1) Go to: http://www.govmail.ca.gov/ Be sure to click the button for "supporting" and select the tab for "Same Gender Marriage" before writing your comments.
2) Write the governor directly at: governor@governor.ca.gov
3) Phone him at: 916-445-2841
4) Fax him at: 916-445-4633
Even one e-mail or phone call could make the difference. Show Arnold that family values apply to ALL families and help us turn back this veto while there's still time. Thank you!
posted by dave at
9/12/2005 12:56:00 PM
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