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See this list of key Senators...

CALL/EMAIL YOUR SENATORS -- TODAY

And ask them to vote YES on the Marriage Amendment!

Voting is probably tomorrow.

Rick Santorum reports there are more contacts coming in against, than for! Bad! People who want to destroy the meaning of "marriage" and "family" are busy-to-obsessed. We know they will not stop with Massachussettes. "Leaving it up to the states," will they will press hard in the courts, so sensible states will be forced to let their residents go to "gay marriage" states and come back "married."

Find your own Senators here.

Show them you care about our most foundational societal, i.e., political building block.

http://www. senate.gov/general/contact_information/ senators_cfm.cfm

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Sorry for the double post - must mean you should call and email both Senators, today and tommorw both.

[swampfox98]

Thanks, I just sent e-mails to my two Senators.

[Salvation]

Also here is a email I just received from Bill Frist:

On Friday, the Senate began debating a constitutional amendment to protect marriage as the union of a man and a woman. I expect we'll have a vote on Wednesday morning.

Many Americans are surprised that we need to have this debate at all. Over and against 5,000 years of recorded human experience, activist judges in Massachusetts have overturned marriage as a covenant between husband and wife. And liberal and conservative legal scholars agree that unless the Congress acts to protect marriage, same-sex marriage will be extended nationwide.

Children do best with mothers and fathers. We're fooling ourselves if we think children will be held harmless by destroying marriage as the union of a husband and a wife. Marriage and family are the bedrock of society.

The question is no longer whether the Constitution will be amended. The question is only how it will be amended and by whom -- activist judges or the people.

My vote is with the people.

Bill Frist

VOLPAC
Post Office Box 158552
Nashville, TN 37215
Office: (615) 386-0045

[Alamo-Girl]

Bump!

[Forgiven_Sinner]

Here's my email to Senators Durbin and Fitzgerald:

Dear Senator Durbin/Fitzgerald,

I feel strongly you should vote in favor of the Marriage Amendment, which restricts marriage to only a man and a woman.

Despite arguments that this is a civil rights issue, it is not. Marriage has been defined as between a man and a woman for thousands of years and is thus defined in every dictionary you may pick. Marriage is a religious institution that the state has supported through benefits because of its good effect upon society. Married people live longer, are more prosperous, and happier. Married people are less likely to commit crimes than single people, especially single men.

There is no such thing as a homosexual marriage. That would require a church to create such a thing as a doctrine. Then the state would have to recognize it as equivalent as a heterosexual marriage. That would require passing a law.

The Massachusetts Supreme Court created law by fiat by ignoring the plain meaning of their own state constitution. Massachusetts has one of the oldest constitutions in the US and no court has seen a "right" to homosexual marriage until this one. The people of Massachusetts have the authority to create a law recognizing homosexual marriage--the court does not.

Homosexual advocacy groups will seek to use the Full Faith and Commerce clause to make homosexual marriage recognized across the United States. The defense of marriage act does not intervene in states rights--they can still create their own laws. It merely restores the universally understood meaning of marriage before the abhorrent decision of the Massachusetts Supreme Court invented a new meaning.

I await your vote. I will work against your re-election if you vote against this amendment.

Sincerely,

Jeffry J. Smith