Important: Action after Protests

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<p>It appears, quite clearly according the this source, Prop</a>. 8 protests could become national movement , that the protests of 2008.11.15 outstrip Stonewall in magnitude and impact. However, these are protests as opposed to riots, so they need to be followed with actions.</p>

<p>I'm only putting one link - Google News has been getting dozens of new matches every hour today. Also, although the Congress and Senate have central contact websites with office addresses and telephone numbers, actual legislator contacts are most often e-mail addresses collected on separate sites for each state. Until DoMA is repealed (for which purposes you can still contact the central government houses), State action is more important, so it appears that the legislaty people might be more immediate.</p>

<p>Question: Are **you<a href="Americans">/B</a> contacting your legislative bodies to argue for gay rights? Now might be a good time to see if they value their own private beliefs over private rights of others.</p>

<p>With waves across the US, it is certainly about more than marriage, so maybe you can approach your elected officials to do something about it. I don't think the Transition team is going to get its hands dirty yet, and</p>

<p>If you get a response, please let me see it.</p>

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<p>Bump...</p>

<p>The Democrats may be too mindful of Bill Clinton's first few years. Obama (says he) wants to fully repeal DOMA, but the rest of the house(s) may not go along unless the public urges it. There are only a few arguments the Religious Right doesn't try to refute (and now the Dems have to deal with conservative southern Democrats, apart from Barack's friends on the Religious Left) so here is one (sloganoid) that seems to ring through even without the details of its supporting argument: "First Class Taxes, Second Class Rights". There. Take that and spread it around; it hardly needs much explanation.</p>