One Visit for Marriage!

The Marriage Protection Amendment is waiting for YOUR action! Senate Bill 1250 (SB 1250) has been introduced with 17 bipartisan cosponsors. The bad news is that those who oppose our amendment are making THEIR own personal VISITS WITH STATE SENATORS urging them to vote against SB 1250. YOUR HELP IS NEEDED NOW.

Monday, March 3 through Friday, March 7th, most of our Legislators will be in their local district offices. Please take your family, your friends, your fellow church-goers to make one brief district office visit to your state senator and ask them to support SB 1250.

We must get the amendment through the PA Senate and House by June for a successful "first round". Your visits and phone calls in the coming days will let our Senators and Representatives know why you and more than 70% of Pennsylvanians polled, want marriage protected now!

In 2006, a Marriage Protection Amendment overwhelmingly passed the PA House but stalled and ran out of time in the PA Senate after pro-abortion Senator Jane Earle (R-Erie) offered a gutting amendment in the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Early in 2008, a Marriage Protection Amendment (S 1250) was reintroduced. The MPA got off to a good start by initially receiving 18 bipartisan cosponsors in the PA Senate. However, this year homosexual activists are organized and vocal visiting state senators local offices. One sponsor withdrew leaving the MPA with 17 cosponsors. To counteract these visits, supporters of the MPA must take a minute and schedule a brief visit THIS WEEK to our state senator's local office.

Help is particularly needed from constituents of Senator Sean Logan (45th: Allegheny, Westmoreland) and the following members of the Senate Judiciary Committee: Senators Stout (46th: Allegheny, Beaver, Washington,Westmoreland, Greene), Lavalle (47th: Allegheny, Beaver, Lawrence), Stack (5th: Philadelphia), Fontana and Mary Jo White (21st: Butler, Clarion, Erie, Forest, Venango, Warren). Constituents are urgently needed to visit their offices by Friday, March 7 to ask for their support of the MPA. It only takes one visit by 2-3 citizens to have an impact. Let that be YOU!

1) To find your state senator's name, office addresses & telephone numbers, click http://www.pasen.gov/index.cfm > Enter your 9-digit zip code (upper right) > Click senator's name for contact info - or call capitol information 1-717-787-2121.

2) Call your senator's office and ask to schedule a brief visit at a local office while the legislature is out of session this week. (If you're unable to make an appointment when the senator is in, make an appointment to leave the senator a letter the written talking points.

3) Visit the office with 1-2 friends or family members. Simply ask the senator to support moving the Marriage Protection Amendment (S 1250) out of committee without weakening amendments for a floor vote by June.

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