The Anti-Same-Sex Marriage Bill: Epistolary Follow-Up

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So, I saved Friday's Metro in order to keep the article about and write letters to those lawmakers who switched their votes on the infamous bill from "yes" in January to "no" in June. Lord knows, as it were, these legislators are going to get a ton of mail condemning them in the names of Jesus, family, and legislated bigotry, so I figure they deserved a card each from a little brown girl to thank them. If you'd like to write them as well, here are their addresses:

http://www.mass.gov/legis/citytown.htm

STATE SENATOR
GALE D. CANDARAS
District Office
17 Main St.
Wilbraham, MA 01095

STATE SENATOR
MICHAEL W. MORRISSEY
State House
Room 413-D
Boston, MA 02133

STATE REPRESENTATIVE
CHRISTINE E. CANAVAN
District Office
29 Mystic Street
Brockton, MA 02302

STATE REPRESENTATIVE
PAUL KUJAWSKI
State House
Room 466
State House
Boston, MA 02133

STATE REPRESENTATIVE
PAUL J.P. LOSCOCCO
State House
Room 254
State House
Boston, MA 02133

STATE REPRESENTATIVE
ROBERT J. NYMAN
State House
Room 527A
State House
Boston, MA 02133

STATE REPRESENTATIVE
RICHARD J. ROSS
State House District Office
Room 237
State House
Boston, MA 02133

STATE REPRESENTATIVE
JAMES E. VALLEE
District Office
20 Pleasant Street
Franklin, MA 02038

STATE REPRESENTATIVE
BRIAN P. WALLACE
State House
Room 472
State House
Boston, MA 02133

Two asides:

The article with the lawmakers also covered the bill's proponents. Reading Kris Mineau's spluttering about how the Massachusetts Family Institute will "look very closely... for ethics violations or improprieties" was made even more amusing by reading this article about how *somebody* pulled shenanigans to list lawmakers as sponsors of a dreadfully restrictive bill concerning education about LGBT issues in K-12 schools. The main connection is that both efforts seek to encode homophobia in law, but still.

An aside about my Liberty/Justice Icon, which has taken me way too long to post:
http://shadowflyer.livejournal.com/31235.html is the original source; shadowflyer made a Cafe Press store featuring this image during the '04 Election as part of the fight against re-electing Bush. clauclauclaudia subsequently made an absolutely awesome icon from it, which I now gleefully sport.

Comments

[flabosib.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you are going to write them. I already sent emails working on the same theory--that they would need to hear from people who believe that they did the right thing.

[karadin.livejournal.com]

I've always loved that icon!

[vass]

You are a heroine.