Defeat The Federal Marriage Amendment in the U.S. House of Representatives

[Ian David]

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Believe it or not — after all the bad press the right wing received for pushing the Federal Marriage Amendment in the Senate — they are gearing up for another fight, and we hope another black eye — this time in the House of Representatives. That's right. Likely during the week of July 17th, there will be yet another vote in Congress to enshrine discrimination against same-sex families into the Constitution.

The right-wing hopes these votes in Congress will pay off for them with more hard right votes for their candidates in November. That's why we need to make sure they don't pick up any momentum with this vote in the House. We need to show the right-wing — and the country — that dragging up ugly, hateful, divisive votes right before elections will not pay off.

We've had enough. Let's stop this amendment once and for all.

We've set up a special page on our website that gives you tools you need to make a difference. You can access it here. On our FMA Action Center, you can e-mail your representative, get talking points for a phone call or a lobby visit, and forward critical information to your friends.

As a voter in a targeted district, the Task Force wants to empower you in any way that we can to leverage your unique status as a constituent to get your representative to vote “no” on the marriage amendment in the House.

Thank you once again for being the front line in standing up for fairness and against right-wing bigotry.

Last month, your work made for a win on this issue in the Senate. With your help one more time, we can shame the right wing again in the House.

Thank you,


Matt Foreman
Executive Director

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[Imalittleteapot]

1. Done. n/t

[izzie]

2. These next few months are going to be like this

Bush and Congress have to pull in their base so the push for every thing they want but also to keep the people on the edge they have to seem like they are in the Middle of the road. So they will say one thing and do what they know their base will vote for. It has already started. Bush has done it both times he has run and then done just as he wished.