NJ Same-Sex Marriage Equality!!
Apr. 30th, 2009 01:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wwcitizenCall your legislators if you live in NJ. If you can't call them (because their voice-mail boxes are full or their lines are busy for more than an hour - both of which I discovered today), you can email them directly from a website! It's very easy to do and well set up for communications. In fact, I've already received (an automated) response from one of the senators telling me that they received my email. Sometimes emails are more powerful than voice-mail messages - they have the paper printout in hand.
Here are the NJ Legislators I contacted:
Senate Judiciary Chairman Paul Sarlo at (201) 804-8118
Senate Judiciary Vice-Chairman John Girgenti at (973) 427-1229
Senator Nia Gill at (973) 509-0388
If you can't get through, go to this website to contact via email directly from this website.
Once you find their names on the roster, click on 1) the name from the list, 2) the selection of the rep, 3) then contact your legislator to send an email from the page - easy to follow. I chose the Minority and Ethnic Affairs subject from their list because I couldn't find anything more connected, but you can leave that blank. Here's a note you can send them (with some minor editing):
________________________________________________________
I’m contacting your office via email because [the Senator's voice-mail was full or their line was busy for over an hour. Because ] the Senator serves on the Judiciary Committee, which serves the entire state and which will vote on the same-sex marriage bill, I wanted to express my support of same-sex marriage equality.
I support marriage equality for same-sex couples and I also believe in religious freedom. The bill before the state legislature doesn't force any religion or clergy to marry anyone. The legal right to be legally married in our state should have no basis or connection to marriages carried out in religious institutions - because of separation of church and state. In fact, as the Senator must know, even religious marriages that do not have a marriage license are not legally binding; I am asking the Senator to allow same-sex couples the right to be legally licensed to be married in NJ as it is in the following states:
New Hampshire
Iowa
Massachussetts
Connecticut
Vermont
Does the Senator support marriage equality for NJ residents? Please let me know. Thank you very much.
Here are the NJ Legislators I contacted:
Senate Judiciary Chairman Paul Sarlo at (201) 804-8118
Senate Judiciary Vice-Chairman John Girgenti at (973) 427-1229
Senator Nia Gill at (973) 509-0388
If you can't get through, go to this website to contact via email directly from this website.
Once you find their names on the roster, click on 1) the name from the list, 2) the selection of the rep, 3) then contact your legislator to send an email from the page - easy to follow. I chose the Minority and Ethnic Affairs subject from their list because I couldn't find anything more connected, but you can leave that blank. Here's a note you can send them (with some minor editing):
________________________________________________________
I’m contacting your office via email because [the Senator's voice-mail was full or their line was busy for over an hour. Because ] the Senator serves on the Judiciary Committee, which serves the entire state and which will vote on the same-sex marriage bill, I wanted to express my support of same-sex marriage equality.
I support marriage equality for same-sex couples and I also believe in religious freedom. The bill before the state legislature doesn't force any religion or clergy to marry anyone. The legal right to be legally married in our state should have no basis or connection to marriages carried out in religious institutions - because of separation of church and state. In fact, as the Senator must know, even religious marriages that do not have a marriage license are not legally binding; I am asking the Senator to allow same-sex couples the right to be legally licensed to be married in NJ as it is in the following states:
New Hampshire
Iowa
Massachussetts
Connecticut
Vermont
Does the Senator support marriage equality for NJ residents? Please let me know. Thank you very much.
