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Date: Tue, 5 Nov 1996 16:16:08 -0800
From: dandY <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Veto DOMA (fwd)
Feeling political?
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President Bill Clinton has been taking way too much advice from his
>right-wing advisors like Dick Morris on the subject of DOMA. He needs to
>know that we will not sit back and allow him to score election year points
>by denying basic rights to lesbian or gay Americans. It is the most
>important battle of our political lives and no matter what we think about
>the timing or the politics behind this issue, we cannot afford to sit this
>one out. This is an experiment in using the net for grass roots politics.
>Your voice will make a difference.
>
> To participate in this experiment:
>
> 1. E-mail this message, exactly as it is, complete with this introduction
>to at least five of your friends. Add it to any mailing lists you are on.
>Please, distribute as widely as you can.
>
> 2. Copy the message below the line, without this introduction, to a new
>e-mail message.
>
> 3. Address that new message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> 4. Fill in your name, street address and the date in the appropriate
>places top and bottom. The White House tosses e-messages with no street
>address.
>
> 5. In the subject line, write VETO DOMA
>
> 6. Hit the send button and your copy of message will be on its way to
>the White House.
>
> If you follow all of these directions the President could receive a few
>hundred thousand messages titled VETO DOMA. It would be too much to
>ignore.
>
> We can and will make a difference in 1996!
>
> Jeff Harris
> Seattle, WA
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>_____________________________________________________
>
>Your Name
>Your Street Address
>Your City, Your State Your Zip Code
>
>Today's Date
>
>President Bill Clinton
>The White House
>1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
>Washington, DC
>
>Dear Mr. President:
>
>Republicans in Congress, with the help of many Democrats, will
>probably pass the so called Defense Of Marriage Act, or DOMA. They created
>the bill from ignorance, from hatred for gay Americans and out of the desire
>to embarrass you in an election year. You helped its progress when, to make
>yourself look good in a election year, you announced early that you would
>sign it. Now, you must change your mind and do the right thing. Veto DOMA!
>We will not allow you to make political gains by creating pain for of gay
>Americans.
>
>DOMA is a dangerous threat to the civil liberties of gay Americans and to
>the Constitution itself. As Jim Crow laws once did to African Americans in
>the South, DOMA would use the mighty power of the federal government to
>deny to one class of citizens, gay Americans: income tax benefits, pensions,
>social security survivor benefits, access to partners in federal hospitals,
>immigration rights, and so much more that we have not yet considered. DOMA
>would create for the first time under federal law two classes of
>citizenship with different rights for gay and straight Americans. This
>divisive law threatens one of our most important Constitutional principles,
>equal protection under the law.
>
>You must do the right thing Mr. President speak out against the hatred,
>eschew the politics of division and rise above the political expedience. Do
>the right thing for your country and its citizens. Veto DOMA. Raise your
>voice against this monstrous injustice. Use the power of your veto pen to
>bring us together, instead of your signiture to divide our nation by
>creating a new federally ordered apartheid system of injustice.
>
>Sincerely,
>
>
>Your Name
>
>
