New Hampshire Republicans have begun to make good on their promise to repeal the state’s marriage equality law. The repeal will demote marriages to civil unions and allow pretty much anyone to discriminate against LGBTs. But you can help stop them, if you act quickly.
The House Judiciary committee will meet tomorrow to discuss whether to repeal marriage equality, so you have one day to tell them not to do it.
Just e-mail [email protected], put “Vote NO on HB427 as amended” as the subject line and write a brief respectful e-mail urging the committee not to repeal marriage equality and its associated rights.
If the amended version of HB427 goes through, it will leave all LGBT families open to discrimination in schools, workplaces and any public accommodations. It will also make it harder for gay families to make legal decisions for each other in the hospital, court room or posthumously.
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Phillip
It seems the e-mail address is misprinted. It should be proceeded by a tilde (~). [email protected]
Scott
Queerty- please fix the email address. It is “[email protected]”. you need to have the “~” before the address orit will not get sent.
Nick
I attempted to email the House Judiciary Committee, and I noticed (after I received a return to sender alert) that this article has misspelled the email address of the New Hampshire House Judiciary committee. it should be spelled: [email protected] . Now get emailing everyone!
Mark
I have and thanks for the note of the ~ at the start of the address – very odd but has to be there.
Michael
These people should be ashamed of themselves… if they had any shame much less a conscience maybe they actually would be.
Matt
Emailing if you are not a resident of New Hampshire will do nothing. These form letters only receive the most basic acknowledgement (opened by an intern and filed) if they are from in state residents.
Joseph
I think the article has the wrong bill. When I looked it up I am finding that a bill on marriage is HB437
http://www.nhliberty.org/bills/view/2011/HB437
I also found a second one for HB443…
http://www.nhliberty.org/bills/view/2011/HB443
Billy
Why not post the phone #’s of the members of the judiciary committee? Calls see more effective.
Jesrad
New Hampshire here: I think the committee is in session right now, but to support our marriage rights it should be vote ‘inexpedient to legislate’ on ‘HB437 as amended.’ Thanks to the last election Republicans outnumber the Democrats by a huge margin so expect this to pass the committee now and then the full legislature in January. A veto from the governor is almost certain and at that point the showdown really begins. Only 25% of NH residents support repeal and 50% are ‘strongly opposed’ – it’s been a bad year for the Republicans, I hope they finally shoot themselves in BOTH feet with this one.
Dan
Wow… how quickly politicians rush to end the rule of law by violating the human rights of millions of other people. Those politicians wouldn’t maintain any government that violates their human rights yet expect other Americans to do so. No one countries come crashing down. Politicians have the power to end the rule of law but not to restore it.
Shannon1981
Bump! Email these fuckers. This is outrageous.