!! MASSACHUSETTS CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION TOMORROW !!

[Ian David]

Cross-posted in the Massachusetts forum:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=158&topic_id=6008&mesg_id=6008


Tomorrow, Massachusetts legislators will meet in Constitutional Convention. According to Anne Dufresne, spokeswoman for Senate President Travaglini, at tomorrow's session legislators will "determine when to reconvene the constitutional convention" to consider proposed amendments to the state constitution. We are neither expecting, nor asking for, a presence at the State House tomorrow.

After tomorrow's convention, we will likely know the date when legislators will meet again to consider the pending amendment that would revoke marriage equality and replace it instead with separate-and-unequal civil unions. We expect this critical date to be sometime this fall.

We will continue our work lining up opposition to the pending amendment right up until the date legislators vote on whether to move the amendment forward to a November 2006 public vote. Thanks to the hard work of MassEquality supporters, staff, and Coalition members, we have been making tremendous progress. Just last week, Representative Anthony Petruccelli of East Boston announced that he will vote against the anti-gay amendment this fall. Our work here at MassEquality and your work meeting with legislators, volunteering and spreading the word about marriage equality is paying dividends. Now is not the time to let up. Later this week, we will send you an email with news about the final convention date and steps you can take between now and then.

Thank you for all your support thusfar. The next few months may very well prove the key turning point in our campaign to preserve equal marriage rights in Massachusetts. Please continue to be engaged and to speak with your friends and family about the importance of marriage equality.

Sincerely,

Marty Rouse
Campaign Director

P.S. Due to the extraordinary success of our summer canvass program, we have decided to keep the program running this fall. Full- and part-time canvassing positions are now available. For more information, please contact Julie at [e-mail].

MassEquality.org is dedicated to ensuring that the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court decision on marriage equality is upheld, and that any anti-gay amendment or legislation is defeated.

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1. Ah, yes. MassEquality.org, a good organization

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Ah, yes. MassEquality.org, a good organization. Indeed. Check out their website: http://www.massequality.org / (stay for the Macromedia Flash Player® intro)!

I miss ex-Senator Tom Birmingham (Democrat, Chelsea, past president of the MA state Senate) who banged the gavel on April 10, 2002, and said they'd be no Constitutional Convention! What a backbone. Yup, he didn't convene the 2002 Massachusetts Constitutional Convention (Con-Con) when discrimination against gay marriage (so-called "Protection of (heterosexual only) Marriage Act") was on the Con-Con agenda back in 2002! What a governor Birmingham would have made!


Granite steps to the front of Massachusetts State House
during the 2004 Massachusetts Constitutional Convention


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