Advertisement
A letter I received the other day from MassEquality
Dear xxxx,
Today, our opponents officially open a new front in their efforts to take away marriage equality. A coalition of vehemently anti-gay organizations -- including national groups like Focus on the Family and local groups such as the Catholic Conference and the Massachusetts Family Institute -- today filed a new amendment with the attorney general. The amendment would take away the right of gay couples to marry and leave them with no protections for their families whatsoever.
If the attorney general certifies this language, our opponents will begin collecting signatures this fall to try to put this new amendment on the ballot. Make no mistake about it -- these groups are powerful and extreme (Focus on the Family alone has an annual budget of over $100 million), and will stop at nothing to take away the right of same-sex couples to marry in Massachusetts.
While we fight this effort, we continue to work hard to defeat the amendment that was approved in last year's constitutional convention. That amendment would take away marriage equality and replace it with separate-and-unequal civil unions. We expect the legislature to vote on this amendment sometime this fall.
We are asking for your help in two ways. First, it has never been more important that you ask your friends, family members, neighbors, and others to sign the equality petition. We need as many people as possible -- gay and non-gay-- to register their support for marriage equality (our opponents have pledged to collect 130,000 signatures for the new anti-gay amendment). To do so, simply click here; we've made it easy for you to send them an email asking them to do so. (www.massequality.org/May17/p...dex.php)
Second, our work to defeat both amendments at once will stretch us as we have not been stretched before. Please consider making a contribution today. Whether $500, $100, or $25, your dollars are needed now more than ever before.
Working together, we will ensure that gay and lesbian couples in Massachusetts will preserve the right to marry far into the future.
Sincerely,
Marty Rouse
Campaign Director
MassEquality
Dear xxxx,
Today, our opponents officially open a new front in their efforts to take away marriage equality. A coalition of vehemently anti-gay organizations -- including national groups like Focus on the Family and local groups such as the Catholic Conference and the Massachusetts Family Institute -- today filed a new amendment with the attorney general. The amendment would take away the right of gay couples to marry and leave them with no protections for their families whatsoever.
If the attorney general certifies this language, our opponents will begin collecting signatures this fall to try to put this new amendment on the ballot. Make no mistake about it -- these groups are powerful and extreme (Focus on the Family alone has an annual budget of over $100 million), and will stop at nothing to take away the right of same-sex couples to marry in Massachusetts.
While we fight this effort, we continue to work hard to defeat the amendment that was approved in last year's constitutional convention. That amendment would take away marriage equality and replace it with separate-and-unequal civil unions. We expect the legislature to vote on this amendment sometime this fall.
We are asking for your help in two ways. First, it has never been more important that you ask your friends, family members, neighbors, and others to sign the equality petition. We need as many people as possible -- gay and non-gay-- to register their support for marriage equality (our opponents have pledged to collect 130,000 signatures for the new anti-gay amendment). To do so, simply click here; we've made it easy for you to send them an email asking them to do so. (www.massequality.org/May17/p...dex.php)
Second, our work to defeat both amendments at once will stretch us as we have not been stretched before. Please consider making a contribution today. Whether $500, $100, or $25, your dollars are needed now more than ever before.
Working together, we will ensure that gay and lesbian couples in Massachusetts will preserve the right to marry far into the future.
Sincerely,
Marty Rouse
Campaign Director
MassEquality
Advertisement
Advertisement
