[Active-l] (ACTION ITEM) (PENNSYLVANIA) Anti-marriage state constitutional amendment introduced

[Dara (R'ykandar Korra'ti)]

	The Family Research Council, a rabidly anti-GBLT fundamentalist 
political organisation, has an action item out for Pennsylvania 
residents to support a recently-introduced state constitutional 
amendment banning marriage rights. Typically, these also ban civil 
unions. I recommend contacting your state legislators to OPPOSE any 
such effort.
	Family Research Council action item appended below.
					- Dara

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Help Preserve Traditional Marriage in Pennsylvania
December 8, 2005 - Thursday
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Family Research Council

http://www.frc.org/get.cfm?i=AL05L02&f=PG03I03

We need your help to pass a Marriage Protection Amendment to our state 
constitution in order to protect marriage for ourselves and our 
posterity, and now is the time!

As we've witnessed in other states such as Massachusetts, this issue 
will be decided one way or another. The real question is: Who Decides: 
activist judges or us (through our elected officials)?

Marriage Protection Amendment legislation will be introduced in January 
2006 by Pennsylvania State Rep. Scott Boyd (R-Lancaster); joined by 
Rep. Daryl Metalfe (R-Butler), Rep. Tom Yewcic (D-Johnstown), Rep. 
Katie True (R-Lancaster) and Rep. Teresa Forcier (R-Crawford).

Rep. Boyd is actively seeking co-sponsors for his bill and you can join 
the effort by helping to get your representative to sign on as a 
co-sponsor.

What you can do to help:

Contact your own state representative and urge him or her to contact 
Rep. Scott Boyd's office to cosponsor the Marriage Protection 
legislation.

Message - Marriage between one man and one woman must be preserved in 
Pennsylvania. We need a Marriage Protection Amendment to our state 
constitution.

Spread the word - Forward this alert to your family and friends in 
Pennsylvania. Tell your pastor. Make an announcement in your church 
this Sunday.

Pray for marriage to be protected in Pennsylvania.

Purpose - A Marriage Protection Amendment would:
* Protect the definition of marriage as the union of one man and one 
woman.
* Protect the public institution of marriage from any counterfeit or 
alternative "civil unions."
* Protect Pennsylvania's marriage statute (strengthened in 1996) from 
being overturned by activist judges in a potential lawsuit challenge.

After you make your contacts, find more information and more ways to 
help by joining Pennsylvania for Marriage at the new website: 
www.PA4marriage.org to get informed and get involved today. Thank you!