[Pacg] Take a minute for local poll on gay marriage ban PLEASE:)

[Carolina 1961]

  We had an incredibly powerful press conference on Tues AM to support Judge
Hansen's decision to strike down the Iowa ban on gay marriage as a law that
is unconstitutional.  Bill Tubbs writes movingly about it in this week's
North Scott press and has a poll on the issue.....he tells me that it
started out with two-thirds responding supporting the rights of gays and
lesbians to marry and then suddenly the numbers quadrupled from a normal
week's response in opposition to the legalization of gay marriage...PLEASE
take one minute to register your opinion at www.northscottpress.com  .....left
hand column down the page....and read Bill Tubb's opinion on same.  And send
this along to family and friends...needs to be in soon for deadline date...
take a moment now!!

Write a letter to the editor of your own at btubbs at northscottpress.com,
,letters at qconline.com , letters at rcreader.com,
opinions at qctimes.com, letters at dmreg.com<opinions at qctimes.com,+letters at dmreg.com>

My own letter to the Editor:
  A State Senator from Bettendorf, Linda Miller, asks why we do  not have a
vote on banning gay marriage in Iowa.  We do not need  a "Defense of
Marriage" act. Marriage does not need to be defended from all the wonderful,
caring loving gay and lesbian adults I know in the eastern Iowa who are in
long-term relationships, many of them raising children, and simply living
their lives as are heterosexuals. As a heterosexual Catholic person of
faith, I strongly believe they have the same legal rights to marital
protections and benefits (insurance, inhertiance, health care decisions,
planning funerals) for their partners that I do and that that Linda
Miller does and that Governor Culver does (both of whom oppose the court
ruling striking down the ban as unconstitutional). This is NOT a religious
matter. Churches can continue to decide whom they will marry and not marry.
It is a profound moral question. Are all Americans equal under the law? The
District Court said they are and I expect our legislators leaders to follow
the Constitution.


Cathy
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