Yes folks. The AFA - American Family Association - Sent this email to me this morning as a wake-up call. Since it asked me to pass it on to my friends, I'm doing just that, passing it on to all my dKos friends:
"May 28, 2006
Activist Judge Overturns Marriage Laws; Homosexual Marriage Now Legal In All 50 States
Contact Your Two U.S. Senators Today!
Dear Keith,
How would you like to wake up one morning and learn that the above headline was the top story in every newspaper in America? That hasn't happened--YET! But gradually, little by little, that is where we are headed. A similar headline will appear in your paper soon unless enough people send a message to their U.S. Senators!
The vote on the Marriage Protection Amendment (sponsored by Sen. Wayne Allard of Colorado), making marriage legal only between one man and one woman, is scheduled for a vote in the Senate June 6.
For a short track record of what liberal activist judges have forced on America in just two years, click here.
How has a small minority of less that 2% been able to force this on the American public? One reason is that those who believe in traditional marriage have been silent.
Some Senators feel they are safe voting against the Marriage Protection Amendment (MPA) by confusing their constituents with a lot of political double talk. Regardless of the political double-talk, remember this: If a Senator votes against the MPA, he or she is in reality voting for homosexual marriage.
Your Senators need to hear from you today! Tell them you want them to vote for the MPA. Let them know that if they refuse to do so you will remember it when election time comes. That is tough language, but the homosexual grip on some Senators is so strong that that is the only language some understand.
Take Action
Send an email to your two Senators today. (If either of your Senators is co-sponsoring the Marriage Protection Amendment, he or she will receive a thank you. If either of your Senators is not co-sponsoring the bill, he or she will get the letter encouraging them to vote for it.) And please, please forward this to friends and family. They probably don't understand how close the homosexual activists are to getting homosexual marriage legalized.
Click Here to Email Your Two Senators Now!
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If you think our efforts are worthy, would you please support us with a small gift? Thank you for caring enough to get involved.
Sincerely,
Donald E. Wildmon, Founder and Chairman
American Family Association
P.S. Please forward this e-mail message to your family and friends!"
So there it is friends. The AFA is just trying to protect us all from the, ummm, ten's of thousands of us gay couples who would wed in the US and thus bring about the ruin of our culture, society, our way of life as we know it!
I still don't know exactly what the damage would be that these kinds of folks say would happen. And maybe we're starting to move into a new era in which their baseless claims will no longer go unchecked. I was speaking with a friend of mine recently who is a Catholic priest from Europe, who says in Europe there is a strong tradition of <gasp> debate, in which people have to present arguments, and then <horror> support those arguments. Can you imagine? What bunch of barbarians. I mean we all know that if an argument can't be summed up on a bumper sticker then it isn't worth discussing.
Anways, pass this on to your friends.