Write in support of civil unions

[NewJeffCT]

I got this email from the CT chapter of the ACLU today...please write them if you can.

Our opponents are winning the e-mail contest! Don't let them defeat the Civil Unions bill. Legislators are receiving hundreds of e-mails a day opposing SB 963 An Act Concerning Civil Unions. These e-mails are mostly form letters and from outside their districts but this deluge is beginning to have an effect. Please contact your legislators and tell them why you support this bill.

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http://www.congressweb.com/cweb4/index.cfm?orgcode=BGCLU

We have written legislators and the Governor to promise them that instead of this barrage of form e-mails, we would only send personal e-mails from their constituents. But we have to produce a significant number of e-mails to counter the impact of their spam. Please click on the link below and write your legislators and the Governor to let them know why this legislation is important to your family.

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http://www.congressweb.com/cweb4/index.cfm?orgcode=BGCLU

It can be a very short note. But please write today. And then FORWARD THIS e-mail to everyone you know who supports civil unions for same-sex couple. We are so close to a victory. Don't let these right wing extremists who oppose any rights for same-sex couples, win. Please write now and then FORWARD THIS plea to family and friends.

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http://www.congressweb.com/cweb4/index.cfm?orgcode=BGCLU

Below are some talking points, you can use to write the e-mail. Thank you in advance for your helping to be party of history!
Civil Unions provide protections, obligations and rights for Connecticut couples in committed, loving relationships. These protections are taken for granted by most heterosexual couples, but their presence-or absence-becomes life-changing in times of crisis.
Civil Unions will guarantee that:
•A man will not find himself on the wrong side of an ICU door while his partner is dying.
•Two elderly women will not be denied the right to share a nursing home room in their final years.
•When a woman's partner of 15 years dies suddenly without a will, she will not lose her home and savings as well as her life partner.
•A sick man will not be denied access to his partner's health insurance when he has to leave his job because of illness.
•A woman will not be denied family leave to care for her ill partner or her partner's child who she has raised.
•Families that separate will have access to court mediation and procedures that provided fairness to both partners and protections for children.
These are real circumstances same-sex couples have faced in Connecticut. SB 963 will prevent them from happening again.