» Marriage Equality New York
Start calling, writing, or e-mailing your representatives now: the State Senate goes into special session next Tuesday, and marriage equality is one of the possible issues at stake. All the info you need is at that link.
The text of the e-mail I just sent to Majority Leader Sampson, and Senator Onorato, follows.
Honorable Senators —
As a young gay man and a proud citizen of Astoria, Queens, I urge you to please do the right thing and schedule a vote on marriage equality for gay & lesbian men & women during the upcoming special session.
Senator Onorato, I know your position on the issue, but on behalf of your thousands of gay & lesbian constituents, their families, and the children growing up in your district who will one day be your constituents, I strongly encourage you to reconsider your stance. I hope to someday raise a family in this beautiful district, but I cannot do so in good conscience if my children will grow up in a place where their family’s right to exist on equal terms is publicly denigrated by our own representative. I honestly beg you: when this issue comes up for a vote, please do not stand in the way of my chance to be treated as an equal citizen in the eyes of the law.
Across the country, with every hateful, discriminatory ballot measure that strips away the rights that the Constitution should assure, millions of young gay men and women — myself included — are giving up hope that America will ever respect them as human beings, and are becoming sadly accustomed to a life of grinding bigotry. Please, do not let a chance go by to give us a fresh shot of hope.
Thank you for your time, and have a wonderful weekend!
-Chris Conroy
Astoria, Queens
