"FMA EXTREMISTS LAUNCH DISGUSTING AD": Human Rights Campaign action email

[Note: For some reason, the email that I got had the wrong link where it says "Click here to see the whole, awful ad." It's fixed now. Everything that follows is either HRC, or HRC's quotation of the pro-FMA ad. --Eve]

Dear ,

With just ten more days until the week our Senators vote, the extremists behind the Federal Marriage Amendment have unleashed their worst yet: A disgusting newspaper ad that is not only anti-gay, it also condemns all single parents--gay or straight.

Friends, this is exactly what we're up against: well-funded, hate-filled people who will stop at nothing to achieve their discriminatory, offensive goals. And we have only ten more days to stop them. Here's how you can continue turn up the heat:

1. Fund the fight against the people responsible for this egregious ad. We can win this battle that they've forced on us, but countering their ugly message with our own newspaper and internet ads and commercials, activating hundreds of thousands of supporters, and educating Senators is the costliest work we have ever done. Please, support this fight of our lives.

2. Tell your Senators to oppose the Federal Marriage Amendment. We know that many Senators are hearing from ultra-conservatives who support the FMA far more--in some cases, by a ten-to-one margin--than they are hearing from people who oppose it. Please, contact your Senators today. Click here.

3. Drop off a letter to your Senator's local office. A personal visit speaks volumes! Hand write a note and personally visit your Senator's office to deliver it. All you need to do is to call your Senators' offices and ask to make an appointment or get their schedule. Click here to find the phone numbers to get started.

Thank you--again--for all you are doing to stop President Bush and his colleagues from writing discrimination into our Constitution. We're glad you're with us. If there's a way you'd like to help that we've missed, drop us a line: field@hrc.org.

Many thanks,

Cheryl A. Jacques
Human Rights Campaign President

[This is a sidebar in the email:]
The extremists behind the Federal Marriage Amendment are placing this egregious ad in newspapers across the country (Ohio example below):

Text of ad starts with "Why Don't [Ohio] Senators DeWine and Voinovich Believe Every Child Needs a Mother and a Father?" and continues with: "...Here's the bottom line: homosexual marriage intentionally creates fatherless families or motherless families. Think about it.

Every child understands how important a mom and a dad are. Help make your senators as smart as a kid. Pick up the phone and tell their staffs you support the Federal Marriage Amendment, and they should too."

Click here to see the whole, awful ad--and then do something about it.
posted by Eve at 1:46 PM | link

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