!!! !!! !!! Mass. Gay Marriage Vote Set for September 14th !!! !!! !!! !!!

[Ian David]

Please Read, Take Action and Forward

Earlier today, Massachusetts legislators convened in Constitutional Convention. They agreed to reconvene and consider proposed constitutional amendments at 1 PM on Wednesday, September 14. We expect that legislators will take the final vote on the pending anti-gay constitutional amendment at that time.

The pending amendment would revoke equal marriage rights for same-sex couples and replace them instead with separate-and-unequal civil unions. If the amendment passes on September 14, as it did last year, it will go to a public vote in November 2006.

The next three weeks are vitally important.

During these 21 days, we must take every action possible to ensure that our legislators know the broad support that exists for marriage equality in Massachusetts. We must explain to legislators why equality is so important and how wrong it would be to have the fundamental civil rights of gay men and lesbians determined at the ballot box. Most importantly, we must enlist new people to take action.

So, today we ask you to do three things:

1. Send an email to your legislators. Even if you have done so already, it is important that your legislators hear from you today, now that the date is set.
Click here to send a message through our website.
http://www.massequality.org/start.php


2. Forward this email to your friends and family members. Commit to enlisting at least five new people to take action.

3. Make a financial contribution to support our work. With your help, we have identified tens of thousands of new supporters of equality. Now we must mobilize them to take action and contact their legislators. Click here to make a secure online donation.
http://www.massequality.org/don_new.php


Together we have built an amazing campaign to protect equal marriage rights in Massachusetts. To ensure our ultimate victory, we ask you today to rededicate yourself to take action now and over the next three weeks.

We will keep you up-to-date over the coming days about actions you can take over the next three weeks.

Thank you,

Marty Rouse
Campaign Director

http://www.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.