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Senator Brownback
Senator Roberts
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, KS 67214-3576
May 31, 2006
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[recipient name was inserted here],
As a constituent and supporter of equal rights for all, I urge you to vote NO on the Marriage Protection Amendment (S.J. Res. 1) when it comes up for a vote on the Senate floor in June. This Amendment would enshrine discrimination into the Constitution and no Senator who has sworn to uphold the Constitution should support this effort. The Constitution enshrines democratic values of the United States of America and this Amendment contradicts these principles.
In fact, it flies in the face of our nation's commitment to liberty, justice, and freedom for all. This discriminatory amendment denies lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender families the protections and fairness they deserve. Heterosexual married couples and their families are afforded more than 1,000 legal protections and economic benefits provided through state and federal law, benefits and protections that are currently inaccessible to committed same-sex couples.
Benefits of civil marriage include access to Social Security, Medicare, Family and Medical Leave, health care, disability, military and other government protections. Without the protections of marriage same-sex couples and their families are subjected to exclusion, discrimination and inequality. These are not the principles this country was founded upon! Please exercise your role as a strong defender of our Constitution and the 14th Amendment’s guarantee of equal protection under the law and vote against S.J. Res. 1.
This will be one of the most important civil rights votes of your Senate career and like all civil rights votes, you can rise above partisan politics and electoral posturing and declare our nation's dedication to equality.
Just because the bible says it's wrong is not a valid excuse to include hate and more seperation in this divided country. Besides the word homosexual did not exist in the time of the original bible being written. What is used now has been re-written many times to favor who ever is in power at the time. To top that little talked about fact is not everyone in this country is "Christian" and should not have to live under the contraints of that religion.Thank you for your careful examination of the proposed amendment and the legal and economic ramifications for your constituents and our nation if it is passed. Please vote against S.J. Res. 1.
Sincerely,
I sent this early last year. I am finally getting back to sounding off in my blog about what I see hurting this country and it is closeminded people like the "good" Senator here.
His walk of faith is his and not mine, nor is it the same as many others in this state or country and yet he works to make everyone follow his walk in how he does things in the senate.
That is not seperation of church and state, that is not what the founding fathers wanted of this country.
Remember folks the European settlers who took the land here by force and faith were trying to excape the forced faith from their own country of birth.
Don't continue the stupidity. It's not the Faith in a creator(s)/Great Mystery that is wrong. It is forcing that one type of faith on others that is.
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