[Fred]

Email from Ron Prentice

www.protectmarriage.com

As if the Legislature doesn’t have enough issues to deal with given the chronic $26 billion state budget deficit, some legislators are advancing a new bill in Sacramento designed to rip a huge hole in Proposition 8 and further undercut traditional marriage in California.

We need your help immediately to contact legislators and the Governor to oppose Senate Bill 54, which seeks to undermine Proposition 8, and further attempts to sneak this change by the people of California through a legislative maneuver known as the “gut and amend.”

Last week, Senator Mark Leno stripped out the contents of SB 54 – dealing with health care coverage -- and inserted language that would legalize gay marriages performed in other states and nations prior to the passage of Proposition 8. This proposal is in direct conflict with California’s constitution – as amended by the passage of Proposition 8 – that provides only marriage between a man and a woman will be valid or recognized in California. Further, it goes well beyond the California Supreme Court’s decision that allowed to remain valid a limited number of same-sex marriages performed in California last summer before Proposition 8 passed.

It is simply wrong and undemocratic for liberal gay activists like Senator Mark Leno to attempt to circumvent the decision of voters and rewrite our constitution behind our backs with this sneaky “gut and amend” maneuver. That’s why we’re asking you to take action TODAY and urge the legislature, and if it gets to him, the Governor, to oppose this effort to undermine Proposition 8.

We’ve told you before about our new coalition, the Protect Marriage Action Fund, and opposing legislation like SB 54 is the kind of aggressive advocacy the Action Fund is undertaking to mount a wide-ranging defense of traditional marriage in our state.

Please become an active supporter by opposing SB 54.

And if you can, please consider making a donation to the Protect Marriage Action Fund by clicking here. Your contribution will be used to help bring on and train field organizers, fund communications with the public and the media and ensure that citizens learn more about the many benefits that traditional marriage has provided to our society.

We pledge to call on you to take action sparingly, only when your action can make a difference, and when there is a direct assault on marriage and Proposition 8. Senator Leno’s SB 54 is such a direct assault, and your action will make a difference.

SB 54 will be heard THURSDAY in the Assembly Judiciary Committee. While the odds of stopping the bill here are low, we think that applying pressure now will drive up more no votes on this bill, which helps increase the odds of the Governor vetoing the bill. If the bill makes it to his desk, we are ultimately looking at an effort designed to encourage Governor Schwarzenegger to veto this legislation.

But for now, the fight is in the State Assembly!

Write your state Assembly representative expressing your opposition to SB 54. Ask him or her to vote against SB 54 if it makes it to the Assembly floor.

In particular, if any of the following members of the Assembly Judiciary Committee represent your home area, please call or email them immediately to urge them to oppose SB 54. Your immediate action will send a clear message that Californians are watching and will not sit idly by while liberal legislators attempt to rip a huge hole in Proposition 8.

Assembly Member Mike Feuer (D – West LA, Beverly Hills, West Hollywood) Assemblymember.feuer@assembly.ca.gov (310) 285-5490

Assembly Member Van Tran (R – Costa Mesa, Garden Grove) Trish.zanella@asm.ca.gov (714) 668-2100

Assembly Member Julia Brownley (D - Calabasas, Oxnard) Assemblymember.Brownley@assembly.ca.gov (818) 596-4141

Assembly Member Noreen Evans (D – Santa Rose, Napa) Assemblymember.evans@assembly.ca.gov (707) 546-4500

Assembly Member Dave Jones (D – Sacramento) Assemblymember.jones@assembly.ca.gov (916) 324-4676

Assembly Member Steve Knight (R – Palmdale, Victorville) Assemblymember.knight@asm.ca.gov (661) 267-7636

Assembly Member Paul Krekorian (D – Burbank) Assemblymember.krekorian@assembly.ca.gov (818) 558-3043

Assembly Member Ted Lieu (D – El Segundo) Assemblymember.lieu@assembly.ca.gov (310) 615-3515

Assembly Member William Monning (D – Santa Cruz, Monterey, Carmel) Assemblymember.monning@assembly.ca.gov (831) 425-1503

Assemblyman Jim Nielsen (R – Redding, Yuba City) Assemblymember.nielsen@assembly.ca.gov 530-223-6300

Please take action today, and may God bless you and your family!

Sincerely,

Ron Prentice, Executive Director ProtectMarriage.com

[fwdude]

To the leftists, obfuscation and distortion of plain language is a way of life. This was totally unnecessary in American thought and life 40 years ago. I guess you now have to anticipate every possible permutation of possibilities even vaguely relating to a law before getting it enacted. Every law will have to be the size of a full volume of encyclopedias.

[Brad from Tennessee]

I guess when electric and water service is cut off at the Capitol and liquidators start carting off the furniture the legislature will realize there is more important business than extralegal rights for rump rangers.

[hattend]

The state is imploding and they waste time and money on bullship like this.

Is the tar boiling temperature yet?

[Lancey Howard]

"The people did not express any attempt to have Prop 8 applied retroactively to in-state or out-of-state marriages," she said, "and that should be the end of the question."

What's great about California is that another initiative can address this "retroactivity" thing.

[Steelers6]

Hmmmm. Let’s see California has a $26 Billion budget whole, sending out IOU’s to pay bills. The Supreme Court of California ruled 6-1 that Prop 8 was Constitutional.

It’s not an accident that this and Massachusetts filed their challenge to the Clinton era Defense of Marriage Act comes on the same day.

[Red in Blue PA]

WOW!

CA has NO MONEY for anything, but they have money for this?

Loons does not even begin to describe them.

[The Anti-One]

WTF is wrong with the people of California? What about the simple little Godly principle, "the wages of sin is death" do they not understand? Their state is dying right before their eyes. They're bankrupt and in a major drought. Most major industry has all but moved out and all primarily because of the moral decay so prevalent in their state and now they wish to invite more diseased perverts into it?

Good.
Maybe all the deviants on the planet will congregate there then the "Big One" will hit and put us all out of our misery. If only we could find a way of moving Capitol Hill to San Fransisco?

Incredible. Absolutely friggin incredible.

And before anyone tries to lay the blame on the legislators let's remember who voted them into office. Every single citizen in the state of California is to blame for what is happening to their state.
Another Godly principle states, "you reap what you sow."

JMHO

[Dante3]

bttt

[Leah at A Better Florida]

Liberal statists fight against the will of the people. We must stand up to those hypocrites.