Dear Friends of Marriage,
The next two months will shape the future of marriage in New Jersey. We need your help today!
After last week’s election, gay marriage advocates know they have just two months to pass a same-sex marriage bill in New Jersey. Once Governor-elect Christie is inaugurated in January, he has promised to veto any same-sex marriage bill that reaches his desk for the next four years.
Governor Corzine decided to make same-sex marriage one of the signature issues of his campaign — even choosing Loretta Weinberg, the Senate’s longtime advocate of same-sex marriage, to be his running mate. (”Tears of Joy” is how Garden State Equality announced the news that Weinberg would be on the ticket.)
But they lost.
So now Governor Corzine is trying to push same-sex marriage through in the lame duck session. And all too many legislators are happy to go along — happy to keep their vote on gay marriage as far away from the next election as possible!
We need your help to keep the pressure on now!
Immediately after last week’s election, Garden State Equality went on the air with TV ads aimed at undecided legislators. Within days, hundreds of activists had attended emergency strategy meetings to lay the groundwork for their lame duck campaign. And it won’t stop there. New Jersey legislators — especially in the Senate — will be bombarded with calls, emails and personal meetings over the next few weeks, as gay marriage advocates make a last ditch effort to put a same-sex marriage bill on Governor Corzine’s desk before he leaves office in January.
But we can put a stop to this desperate attempt to redefine marriage!
NOM is pleased to be part of the largest grassroots campaign ever organized to protect marriage in New Jersey, as we all work together to stop this latest gay marriage push. Last week, NOM launched a $250,000 radio ad campaign to make New Jerseyans aware of the radical agenda being pushed in Trenton during the lame duck session.
Already, we’re seeing reports of divisions within the Senate Democratic caucus. Just a few days ago, Senate President Richard Codey admitted to a WNYC reporter that he doesn’t have enough Democratic votes to pass the bill, despite a 23-17 party advantage in the Senate. And he’s not sure he has enough Republican votes, either.
Gay marriage advocates are working frantically to swing enough votes in the Senate to pass same-sex marriage. If we can hold the line here, for the next ten weeks, we can save marriage in New Jersey for at least four years.Here’s what I need you to do:
1) Click here to email your state senator and assemblymembers right now. Tell them that marriage deserves a full and fair hearing, not a rushed vote while the voters aren’t looking. Marriage is too important to be rammed through with backroom deals during a lame duck session.
2) Spread the word! Tell everyone you know that we need them right now. Forward this email to your friends. Tell people at church. Make sure every member of your family contacts your state senator over the next few weeks. Together we can stop this bill!
Will you stand with us today? Don’t put it off. We don’t know exactly when a vote might take place. Take action today!
Faithfully,
Brian S. BrownExecutive Director
National Organization for Marriage
20 Nassau Street, Suite 242
Princeton, NJ 08542
bbrown@nationformarriage.org
7 Comments
How dare you! You would go against the teachings of Christ to “love one another” and discriminate against people who don’t fit *YOUR* warped views.
Rest assured, my funds are going to organizations that DO NOT DISCRIMINATE as our Lord Jesus Christ taught us to do.
Alyssa? You don’t look like an Alyssa….
I love quizzes. ☺ Here’s a very short one with a preamble, so to speak.
In my lifetime, I have seen homosexual behavior go from being illegal and abhorred to legal and tolerated. No matter what you believe about it, this is the history of the matter for the last 50 years or so.
Question: Why did the change occur? (Choose one)
A. God altered the roles and functions of men and women toward each other which He gave when He created them *for His own glory and purposes.*
B. He changed His perpetual standard of morality which He sovereignty commanded to those His creatures, i.e. all human beings.
C. The real world revulsion and disgust this behavior instills in those who don’t practice it, and the bondage and guilt known deep within by those who do simply vanished, and the real world is now what Hollywood depicts and some think has been legislated into existence.
D. Our society did not progress toward something better, but is going the route of previous civilizations that were destroyed from within by decadence.
Marriage is between a man and a woman. Everything else, is everything else. It is that way for a reason. I have yet to hear a good solid reason from the gay community why successful societal standards should be changed to suit some johnny come lately ideology. No society at any time, in any place in history has successfully altered marriage the way these activists wish to alter it and remained a viable society.
Seriously, if the human race were replaced in this equation with a venerable population of rare fruit gnats, would we be so eager to meddle with the societal underpinnings that keep a species viable? Noway! The environmentalists would commission studies and we’d have to listen to people drone on about how the little things we do affects the natural chain of events and create major problems down the line…. So. I guess my question is, why don’t we take the same level of care with our own species as we do with menial fruit gnats?
What I’d like to know is why this is coming up in little old new jersey? Gay marriage in New York and California I can understand where there is some kind of gathering of gays, however I know they are dispersed in smaller groups throughout. Gay marriage in NJ simply doesn’t address the people’s needs there. If gay marriage is legal in NJ it will effect a handful of people locally compared to CA and NY. Why change the definition of marriage in a state that doesn’t seem to care? Seems like a fly compared to the elephants CA and NY? What is the real reason for this huge attention to a small state? Why all the urgency from the gays? Whats the rush?
Marriage isn’t under assault. It’s just being opened to include everyone.
Clark,
If marriage includes “everyone,” then why call “it” marriage? What would be its defining characteristics then? Wouldn’t all “couples” be able to enter into marriage, then, by your definition? A “one size fits all” approach to marriage perhaps is why were here in the first place.