Dear Governor Schwarzenegger – I don’t know if your realize how extraordinary it is for California to ask for same-sex couples to have the freedom to marry through the legislative branch of government. From Hawaii to Iowa, state after state has ordered…Read More »
When you try to justifyyour veto in the people’s eyeyou will certainly try to saythe people wanted it this way. That was seven years ago,when the people didn’t even knowthe law protecting their state’s rightswould be twisted to block Freedom’s flight. Twisted…Read More »
Dear Governor Schwarzenegger – As somebody who has read your various statements about gay marriage in California over the years, I believe that you would sign AB 43 (the bill ending the special exclusion of same-sex couples from marriage) if it was…Read More »
Dear Governor Schwarzenegger – I was lucky enough to find somebody that I love, who loves me back. We have been together ten years, two months and twenty-one days, and our two kids are celebrating their first half-birthday today. We want to…Read More »
Dear Governor Schwarzenegger – A lot has changed since 2005, when you vetoed AB 849 saying that you want the people to decide who can access marriage in California. More than 9,000 marriages have taken place in Massachusetts (and rather than the…Read More »
Dear Governor Schwarzenegger – Thank you for being so supportive of California’s many lesbian and gay families, from signing our historic domestic partnership legislation to leaving $300,000 in this year’s budget for LGBT victims of domestic violence. I wish your support of…Read More »
Dear Governor Schwarzenegger – It looks like a veto of the 2007 Religious Freedom and Civil Marriage Protection Act (AB 43), would put you on the wrong side of the people too. In a Zogby poll of New Jersey voters released yesterday,…Read More »
Dear Governor Schwarzenegger – As you consider your position on AB 43, the Religious Freedom and Civil Marriage Protection Act, you might like to hear from some people I consider to be real leaders, in a situation very similar to yours. Starting…Read More »
Dear Governor Schwarzenegger – We passed Proposition 22 so we could make our own decisions about marriage. It is time to exercise that right, and go where the Federal government won’t: when you get AB 43 , please sign it so same-sex…Read More »
Dear Governor Schwarzenegger – Today I wrote to Senator Feinstein about her vote on the Judicial Subcommittee that passed along Leslie Southwick to an “up-down” vote on the Senate Floor. There are a lot of similarities to your position on AB 43,…Read More »