Emergency Marriage Alert (4/15/04)

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PLEASE FORWARD THIS URGENT MESSAGE TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW IN CALIFORNIA

CAMPAIGN FOR CALIFORNIA FAMILIES (CCF)
Randy Thomasson, Executive Director
www.savecalifornia.com

"HOMOSEXUAL MARRIAGE" BILL SCHEDULED FOR APRIL 20 HEARING AT 8 A.M.

Emergency Action Alert: AB 1967 Needs Phone Calls, Emails, Faxes, Letters Immediately

Under the cover of the big workers' compensation issue at the State Capitol, the Democrat-controlled Assembly Rules Committee today sent AB 1967, the full-blown homosexual "marriage" bill that rejects the vote of the people, to the Assembly Judiciary Committee for a vote early Tuesday at the unusual early time of 8:00 a.m.

This controversial "gay marriage" bill has been unassigned for nearly two months now due to public pressure, but the Democrats who rule the Assembly apparently want to "test" the voters as they push to impose full-blown homosexual "marriage" upon California as a role model for the children. They want to pass AB 1967 through two committees and bring it to the Assembly floor. Don't let this happen. Stop and realize that AB 1967 is only going forward because the ruling Democrats have not heard from you or your friends loudly enough. Now is the time for action!

AB 1967 is scheduled for a hearing on Tuesday, April 20 at 8 a.m. (new early time) in the Assembly Judiciary Committee, which will meet in Room 4202 of the State Capitol.

Please take personal action right away. Don't think of your involvement as optional. This is the time to fight for marriage and morality, and AB 1967 needs a FLOOD of pro-family opposition today, Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday. Pray and work to stop AB 1967 at the Assembly Judiciary Committee. We have a fighting chance if you and thousands of others take renewed action right now.

There has never been an official committee hearing on a "civil unions" or homosexual "marriage" bill in the history of California. Don't let history be changed or the definition of marriage be destroyed. Do your part now to protect marriage! Raise your voice with phone calls, emails and faxes! Use the AB 1967 Action Flyer to activate others!

PLEASE TAKE ANY OR ALL OF THESE IMPORTANT ACTION STEPS:

1. Send a Brand-New Email Message
2. Print and Distribute the AB 1967 Action Flyer
3. Call the Assembly Speaker and the Committee Members
4. Fax Your Opposition Letter (Sample Letter Provided)
5. Come to Tuesday's big hearing

1. CCF has a brand-new message for you to email to every state legislator saying "OPPOSE AB 1967." Even if you've used CCF's email system this year, please act today to send another powerful "Stop AB 1967" email message to the Judiciary Committee members and to every state legislator in Sacramento. Click here and for easy instructions: http://www.savecalifornia.net/index.php?id=gaymarriage

2. Help generate a flood of phone calls and email messages opposing AB 1967. Download and distribute the AB 1967 Action Flyer at your church this weekend: http://www.savecalifornia.com/actioncenter/ab1967_0304.cfm

3. Call Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez and the 12 members of the Assembly Judiciary Committee. Tell them "How dare you even THINK of trashing my vote to protect marriage for a man and a woman. Stop AB 1967 right now. Marriage is for a man and a woman, and the people of California voted to keep it that way!"

Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez (D-downtown Los Angeles)

916-319-2046 / fax 2146
213-620-4646 / fax 213-620-6319

Ellen Corbett (D-San Leandro), committee chair
916-319-2018 / fax 2118

Hannah-Beth Jackson (D-Santa Barbara)
916-319-2035 / fax 2135

Loni Hancock (D-Berkeley), AB 1967 Co-author
916-319-2014 / fax 2114

John Longville (D-San Bernardino Co.), AB 1967 Co-author
916-319-2062 / fax 2162

Sally Lieber (D-San Jose), AB 1967 Co-author
916-319-2022 / fax 2122

John Laird (D-Santa Cruz), AB 1967 Co-author
916-319-2027 / fax 2127

Cindy Montanez (D-San Fernando), AB 1967 Co-author
916-319-2039 / fax 2139

Darrell Steinberg (D-Sacramento), AB 1967 Co-author
916-319-2009 / fax 2109

Tom Harman (R-Huntington Beach)
916-319-2067 / fax 2167

Robert Pacheco (R-Walnut)
916-319-2060 / fax 2161

Todd Spitzer (R-Orange)
916-319-2071 / fax 2171

Patricia Bates (R-Oceanside)
916-319-2073 / fax 2173

4. Write a brief letter opposing AB 1967 on personal, business, church or organizational stationery. Fax it to the Assembly Judiciary Committee at (916) 319-2188, and fax a copy of your letter to CCF at (916) 848-3456. You may also fax your letter to other members of the Judiciary Committee by changing the addressee and salutation. Here is a sample letter to edit, or copy and paste if you wish:

(Date)

The Honorable Ellen Corbett Chair, Assembly Judiciary Committee State Capitol Sacramento, CA 95814

Re: AB 1967 -- Oppose

Dear Chairwoman Corbett:

(Name of organization) strongly oppose AB 1967, which will usher homosexual "marriage" into California, violating the will of the people and the state constitution that prevents the Legislature from amending or rejecting the vote of the people on Proposition 22.

This radical bill would allow any two persons  two men or two women  to receive a government-approved gender-neutral marriage license. Completely destroying the uniqueness of marriage for a man and a woman, AB 1967 trashes the vote of the people to protect marriage and turns this sacred institution upside down.

AB 1967 would create same-sex marriage in California, violating Proposition 22 and the will of 61.4 percent of the voters who demanded that the sacred rights of marriage be protected for a man and a woman, a husband and a wife.

I urge you to protect the rights of voters and resist this bad bill which would completely destroy the uniqueness of marriage in California. The state should strengthen and protect marriage between a man and a woman, not weaken or eliminate the distinction of this sacred institution.

Just four years ago, 4.6 million Californians went to the polls and demanded that marriage rights be protected for a man and a woman only. AB 1967 goes directly against the voters and the state Constitution:

Marriage is something that should be between a man and a woman. - Arnold Schwarzenegger on the nationally-syndicated Sean Hannity radio show, August 28, 2003

Only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California. - Proposition 22, the Protection of Marriage Initiative, approved by 61.4 percent of California voters (4,618,673 voters) on March 7, 2000

The Legislaturemay amend or repeal an initiative statute by another statute that becomes effective only when approved by the electors unless the initiative statute permits amendment or repeal without their approval. - California State Constitution, Article II, Section 10(c)

Because the voters have overwhelmingly spoken and have stated that marriage should only be for a man and a woman, please oppose AB 1967. This bill would destroy the uniqueness of marriage, reject California voters, and reject and our state Constitution. Marriage is only for a man and a woman!

Sincerely, (Signature) (Name) (Position) (Organization)

5. Come to the committee hearing in Sacramento to add your voice at the hearing. There will be an opportunity for you and your friends to come to the microphone and state your name and that you are opposed to AB 1967. Bring your friends to Room 4202 at the State Capitol at 8 a.m. (new early time) on Tuesday, April 20. The State Capitol Building is on the corner of 10th and L Streets in Sacramento.

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[ohioman]

Good Lord what a F'ed up family you have. You belong in California.

[Future Snake Eater]

I have no problem being friends with gay people...I am..but they know where I stand, and that their bedroom life as a basis to achieve their political agendas is disgusting.

Amen. My wife's brother is gay. He's a great guy, but I can't stand that aspect of his life. Right this second, it's none of my business. But what happens when we have children? Am I going to want my kids to meet their uncle and uncle who are really friendly towards each other and happen to live together? Hell no. That's when it becomes a real problem.

There's a lot to being a kid, and dealing with sexual immorality from people who define themselves SOLELY on sex is NOT something my kids or anyone's kids should have to deal with.

I also get rather tired of being told that I'm "hateful" if I don't like what gay people do. There seems to be no comparative statement in the liberal playbook for "love the sinner, hate the sin." It's an all-or-nothing proposition. If you disagree with any aspect of anyone's life, then you must be a hateful Christian fundie. Well, get over yourselves, libs, I DON'T LIKE GAY BEHAVIOR.

[ishabibble]

>>I feel sorry for you, for the turmoil that is in your family.<<

I was suspicious of your first post. This tears it.
I will don my hip boots before I continue reading your agenda...

[freeangel]

dems in the back door bump

[Devil_Anse]

Just thought I'd pass this on to you Californians.

[scripter]

Indeed we are all entitled to our opinion, yet the facts on homosexuality support one opinion and not the other.

Perhaps with some homosexuals, engaging in homosexuality is a choice they make to rebel as we see with freeper Chani.

The more science studies homosexuality, the more we see the major factor determining homosexuality is environment. That's not a bold statement, it's what science continues to report. We should heed the words of John Adams when he said:

"Facts are stubborn things, and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence."

As two of the three little pigs learned, we must build our house out of something solid. This was an important teaching of Jesus as well. He said it is foolish to build your house on sand, or to build your core position on something that is easily washed away. Instead, we should build our position on something solid, something which stands firm under scrutiny.

In regards to homosexuality and genetics, the work of homosexual activist Dr. Simon Levay has often been used to support the idea that homosexuality is genetic, and his work is still quoted to this day. But what did Levay really find? Here is what Levay said of his own work:

"It's important to stress what I didn't find. I did not prove that homosexuality is genetic, or find a genetic cause for being gay. I didn't show that gay men are born that way, the most common mistake people make in interpreting my work. Nor did I locate a gay center in the brain."

In 1973 the APA (American Psychiatric Association) declassified homosexuality as a mental disorder. According to Levay, it wasn't science that propelled the APAs change, he said "Gay activism was clearly the force that propelled the APA to declassify homosexuality."

Dr. Robert L. Spitzer played a pivotal role in the above 1973 decision made by the APA. Spitzer used to believe homosexuals couldn't change but after studying the results of therapy he now believes homosexuals can change:

"I thought that homosexual behavior could be resisted--but that no one could really change their sexual orientation. I now believe that's untrue--some people can and do change."

Spitzer concluded with:

"the mental health professionals should stop moving in the direction of banning therapy that has, as a goal, a change in sexual orientation. Many patients, provided with informed consent about the possibility that they will be disappointed if the therapy does not succeed, can make a rational choice to work toward developing their heterosexual potential and minimizing their unwanted homosexual attractions."

I hope that helps.

[BriarBey]

I agree. Seems we are on a beaten path that no one can stop. We call normal abnormal and abnormal normal. Or is that "In the last days they will call bad, good and good, bad." Did you ever see such a screwed up world? Its not politically correct to have your own opionion where morality is concerned, you can be good to those you disagree with but freedom of speech and an opinion? No way. The corrupt can have theirs but the ones who have the good common sense morals that founded this great country to begin with had better shut up. Nothing makes sense anymore, and we look at our children and wonder what is happening to them. How do 7-8 yr. olds rape and beat a 5-6 yr. old. HOW could Columbine have happened? We haven't seen anything YET! sigh.

[BriarBey]

I don't think gays "choose" that lifestyle. Why would they? I mean why would you choose something that is going to bring you hate and ridicule?


You couldn't be further from the truth. Should we allow a pedophile to do what they want? What about a crack user and a murder? Where do you draw the line? We all choose. Watch the self mutilation of our children with the body piercing and tattooing and from what I hear the new rage is amputation. Lots of heterosexual couples live a lifetime together without marriage.....this need for marriage by the gays is a way for them to get more entitlements, and the self absorbed attention they crave, other wise they would shut up and just live together.

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

the full-blown homosexual "marriage" bill

Interesting choice of words.

[EdReform]

Bump

What We Can Do To Help Defeat the "Gay" Agenda
( www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1076476/posts )

Homosexual Agenda: Categorical Index of Links (Version 1.1)
( www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1026551/posts )

Culture of Vice
( www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/977884/posts )

TRUTH WITHOUT INTERRUPTION DAY-- APRIL 21, 2004
( www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1106288/posts )

[EdReform]

In 1973 the APA (American Psychiatric Association) declassified homosexuality as a mental disorder. According to Levay, it wasn't science that propelled the APAs change, he said "Gay activism was clearly the force that propelled the APA to declassify homosexuality."

Homosexual Activism in the American Psychiatric Association and the Removal of Homosexuality from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM)

The Politically Correct American Psychological Association

An excerpt from "Psychology's sexual dis-orientation" by MIT Psychologist, Gerald E. Zuriff, Ph.D

[msdrby]

Ping

You knew it would get eventually rear its ugly head.

[scripter]

Excellent. Thanks. I need to update my standard response #42 to include your links.

[RightWingAtheist]

I'm glad you're able to put politics aside and love your daughter no matter what. I had to go through something similar with my best friend. In high school, I was a liberal but also, I'm ashamed to say, somewhat prejudiced against gays. Then my best friend came out as both gay and conservative. He didn't try to convert me to his lifestyle, but he did successfuly convert me to Limbaugh.

[concerned about politics]

The fascist abominations are thwarting democracy.
Their "victim hood" propaganda disguises their judicial dictators who are ordering the free American people to obey them.

Protect American democracy. Vote "yes" on the marriage amendment. Send a message to the unelected dictators on the bench!

[concerned about politics]

I guess what we (gays and families of gays) do is what blacks did prior to the civil rights movement.

Blacks are just like homosexuals? Say that to one next time you see him on the street and see if he agrees with you.

[concerned about politics]

I am the mother of 2 gay children.

2 sexual dysfunctionals in one house? Even a herd of wild animals wouldn't put up with that type of behavior!You do have one seriously screwed up family there.
Did you know homosexuals were kept in insane asylums until 1973 because they were considered by the medical profession to be a danger to society? They were still considered sexually insane until 1980, but then the Marxist saw them as useful idiots for their cause. They let them out.
Today, we're stuck paying millions to clean up their vile diseases because of it.
You should be proud of yourself for the abominations you've created - NOT! (Shame on you! You're a dishonor to all mothers! Where were you when your children really needed you?)

[little jeremiah]

Please read post #26. Especially since you have two children who are identifying as homosexuals, you owe it to yourself and to them to become informed about what the causes of homosexuality really are, as well as what the "gay" agenda is doing in this country. I've read your posts and you certainly have opinions, but those opinions are not based on the facts, the results of research, and the fact that there are thousands of ex-homosexuals.

There is no excuse for ignorance on FR. Check scripter's links, read up, and then join the debate. If you don't want to inform yourself, then you are "outing" yourself as a shill for the "gay" agenda.

[concerned about politics]

Porn is different. People do that because they get paid.

Did you hear about the porn guy that got AIDs on vacation and spread his pleasure around the porn community?
He got it on vacation! If he does sex for a living, wouldn't a "vacation" be a break form his sex work? Huh?
If I were a lumber jack, I wouldn't still be cutting down trees on my vacation! Sheesh!

Anyway, I suppose "Thou shall not commit adultery" has taken on a whole new meaning to those who inherited the "gay and ever so happy homo plague", aye?

[concerned about politics]

If you don't want to inform yourself, then you are "outing" yourself as a shill for the "gay" agenda.

I agree. I'd say the homosexual propaganda being thrown around on this thread is way too obvious. No sane mother would admit to screwing up her kids "with pride."