Call these senators. No, seriously.
I don't usually do signal-boosting things anymore, but hell, this cause is important enough to me.
The New York State Assembly voted in support of same-sex marriage last night (for the fourth time, I might add). The vote is with the Senate now, and Senate Republicans are debating whether or not to let a vote go through. Either way, the vote's going to be very close, and we need all the support we can get to make marriage equality a reality.
Maureen Johnson's post has great information about calling, and I'm going to copy-and-paste her list of senators to call:
UNDECIDED NEW YORK STATE SENATORS:
Greg Ball. gball@nysenate.gov, (845) 279 3773
Andrew Lanza, Staten Island. (718) 984-4073
Stephen M. Saland of Poughkeepsie. (845) 463-0840, saland@nysenate.gov
UNCOMFIRMED:
J. Kemp Hannon, Nassau County. (516) 739-1700, hannon@nysenate.gov
Mark Grisanti of Erie County, not answering the phone. May be in hiding. (518) 455-3240
VOTING AGAINST:
Betty Little of Glens Falls. (518) 743-0968, little@nysenate.gov
Charles J. Fuschillo, Jr. , Suffolk County. (516) 882-0630 (winner of the WORST PERSON EVER ON THE PHONE, EVER award-kudos!)
If any of these senators represent you, then calling is double-plus-important. You'd better believe that the homophobes out there are going to be massing and trying to keep marriage equality from going through, so it's vital that we get our voices out. You don't have to say much: just your name, your address or zip code if they ask, and that you're calling the senator to support marriage equality.
As many of you guys know, Mith and I are living together in New York, so this issue is really personal for us. I'm tired of hearing that our relationship isn't worth as much as straight couples' relationships are, that we're less deserving of rights and protections and love and family than straight couples are. I want to change that. I want to live somewhere where other people who don't know me don't get to decide who I can and can't marry. I want to wear a big floofy white dress, and I want my partner to wear a big floofy white dress, and I am not going to let the legislature take my dreams of big floofy white dresses away from me.
Let all of us have our big floofy white dresses. Or stylish tuxes. Or whatever the hell we want to get married in. It should be our choice, not theirs.
.
The New York State Assembly voted in support of same-sex marriage last night (for the fourth time, I might add). The vote is with the Senate now, and Senate Republicans are debating whether or not to let a vote go through. Either way, the vote's going to be very close, and we need all the support we can get to make marriage equality a reality.
Maureen Johnson's post has great information about calling, and I'm going to copy-and-paste her list of senators to call:
UNDECIDED NEW YORK STATE SENATORS:
Greg Ball. gball@nysenate.gov, (845) 279 3773
Andrew Lanza, Staten Island. (718) 984-4073
Stephen M. Saland of Poughkeepsie. (845) 463-0840, saland@nysenate.gov
UNCOMFIRMED:
J. Kemp Hannon, Nassau County. (516) 739-1700, hannon@nysenate.gov
Mark Grisanti of Erie County, not answering the phone. May be in hiding. (518) 455-3240
VOTING AGAINST:
Betty Little of Glens Falls. (518) 743-0968, little@nysenate.gov
Charles J. Fuschillo, Jr. , Suffolk County. (516) 882-0630 (winner of the WORST PERSON EVER ON THE PHONE, EVER award-kudos!)
If any of these senators represent you, then calling is double-plus-important. You'd better believe that the homophobes out there are going to be massing and trying to keep marriage equality from going through, so it's vital that we get our voices out. You don't have to say much: just your name, your address or zip code if they ask, and that you're calling the senator to support marriage equality.
As many of you guys know, Mith and I are living together in New York, so this issue is really personal for us. I'm tired of hearing that our relationship isn't worth as much as straight couples' relationships are, that we're less deserving of rights and protections and love and family than straight couples are. I want to change that. I want to live somewhere where other people who don't know me don't get to decide who I can and can't marry. I want to wear a big floofy white dress, and I want my partner to wear a big floofy white dress, and I am not going to let the legislature take my dreams of big floofy white dresses away from me.
Let all of us have our big floofy white dresses. Or stylish tuxes. Or whatever the hell we want to get married in. It should be our choice, not theirs.
.