YOUR chance to make a change!

February 9th, 2009

In just a few short weeks on March 5, the California Supreme CourtÂ will begin to review the legalityÂ of Proposition 8, a ballot initiative that amended the California State Constitution to revoke marriage rights from gay and lesbian couples. The court then has 90 days to come to a decision. It is now SO important that people come out of the woodwork in overwhelming vocal support of gay marriage rights and denounce Proposition 8.

This week is Freedom to Marry WeekÂ and in various cities around the nation protests will be heldÂ throughout the week to support the rights of ourselves, our friends, our family, and our neighbors. On February 14 in Chicago teams will march while gay couples head to the Cook County Marriage License Bureau and demand to be married. We need as many people as we can get at these events!

Please, please, please: join the Facebook event (details below), tell your friends, blog about it, put the information out there in as many spots as you can find. This is a crucial time for an important cause!

Facebook event (for Chicago):Â http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=123437705110

Facebook group (where I can nag my friends, please feel free to join!):Â http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=53940967030

How you can help:

Go to one of the protests, no matter where it may be!
Invite ALL your friends to the event for your area, and to the group!
Put up posters and flyers:Â http://gayliberation.net/pdf/2009/0214free2marryday/Flyer,%20color.pdf
Call, text, email your friends.
Organize a party to make picket signs.
Organize a brunch party for immediately before the protest so people can meet in one place and travel together.
Write a blog post, tweet about it, put it on your FriendFeed, share it on your other social networks.

Tags: civil rights, coming out, freedom to marry, gay, gay marriage, Gay Rights, homosexuality, illinois, prop 8, proposition 8

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Thain

While I fully hope that the amendment will be found unconstitutional, I can just see the talking heads bobbling about it already. The term “activist judges” is going to get thrown around a lot, along with “sactitiy of marriage” and a lot of other old-hat repetitive crap. This is the problem with democracy in it’s pure form, misinformation can force a vote one way or the other, and if a powerful enough group of people had a mind to do so, they can rather easily herd the public into voting how they want.

This is actually why our federal government is not a democracy, its a republic. People forget this, mostly because every schoolbook says that our government is a democracy, not a republic.