Flavia Colgan: PA House to Vote on Marriage Amendment Next Week: Action Needed Now

April 17, 2006

PA House to Vote on Marriage Amendment Next Week: Action Needed Now

Pennsylvania already has a law that denies civil marriages for same sex couples. This attempt to write discrimination into our constitution is completely unnecessary and it seeks to exploit fears to be used for political gain.

It takes time and energy away from things I believe to be more important to Pennsylvanians. Things like property tax reform, raising the minimum wage, education and health care.

Please call your State Representative and ask him or her to vote "no" on House Bill 2381, the Marriage Protection Amendment. (Need to find out who your rep is?)

If you already know who your state Representative is, call the Capitol Switchboard at 717-787-2121 and ask to speak to that person.

Now is the time to write and send a short letter to the editor of your local newspaper about it.

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Comments

Flavia - glad you are back from the West Coast!

Posted by: sb at April 18, 2006 11:18 AM

Don't stay too long back east! LA needs your political sanity. Too many lefty lunatic fringers out here making Hollywood a national laughingstock

Posted by: Bo at April 18, 2006 02:21 PM

Pennsylvania should be lucky that this issue is only presenting itself through legislation. In states like Michigan, Maryland and other referendum states, the radical right has used and are preparing to use this issue as a way to drive a wedge between political candidates and drive out their conservative base.

The process for having an issue appear on the ballot as an initiatve measure takes longer than some of these other states so the conservatives are trying to do it the old fasion way. Trust me, you will see this issue raised in the fall elections as the right-wing tracks how certain members voted.

Could we please not let Pennsylvania end up like Kansas and their Fred Phelps homophobes?

Posted by: D.J. at April 18, 2006 03:16 PM

Everyone should be treated equally. Period.

Posted by: Joe at April 18, 2006 03:52 PM

If you know who your state rep is, you can check him or her out at www.house.state.pa.us/.

Posted by: steve at April 18, 2006 04:42 PM

Aren't constitutions supposed to ensure our rights, not take them away? When we are faced with inadequate health insurance for our citizens, unqualified teachers for our children, inadequate drug abuse treatment, and major environmental problems, I'm just happy our legislature is working hard on a gay marriage amendment. If these guys (and gals) were on Gilligan's Island, they would be more interested in hut assignments than fixing the hole in the boat.

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Posted by: Friends of Rose Izzo at April 18, 2006 05:47 PM

Desperate voters, fearful that homosexuals might enjoy the sanctity of marriage knowingly elect an incompetant President.

EXORCISE YOUR RIGHT, VOTE !!

Posted by: cognitorex at April 20, 2006 03:06 AM

Hopefully, this shameful exercise will backfire like "intelligent design" did last year. At some point, the voters will wake up and realize that these hot-button social issues are distracting us from solving more critical problems with the economy, health care and education. And like Dover, PA, maybe they will replace their elected officials who choose divisiveness over the common good.

Posted by: Mark V. at April 20, 2006 11:46 AM

Thank you Flavia for bringing attention to this! There's more info about this sneaky Trojan-horse amendment at www.center4civilrights.org.

(This is what happened in other states. The amendment people claim "It's just about marriage" and then afterwards we'd hear "Oops, did we take other legal protections away too? Oh well!")

Posted by: BenPA at April 20, 2006 05:04 PM