The Year of Moving Forward

The Year of Moving Forward
At our 4 person wedding reception in DC

Thursday, November 20, 2008

Postcards

Join the Impact has a good idea. Buy one of those touristy post cards, you know, that has a picture of something related to your state or city, and send to President Elect Obama with a hand written message.





Something like this:

Dear President-elect Obama,

Please ask Congress to repeal DOMA! All Americans should have the right to marry. Thank you in advance for advocating for the civil rights of your LGBT citizens.

Sincerely,

Your name and state


Take a picture of yourself with the postcard and email it to Join the Impact to add to their album, like this guy from Seattle, Washington did.



Mail the postcard to:
President-elect Barack Obama Presidential Transition Office
Kluczynski Federal Building
230 S. Dearborn St., 38th Floor
Chicago, IL 60604

To learn more about Join the Impact and how they might be working in Birmingham (this is new) come to the Alabama Stonewall Democrats meeting tonight at 6:00 at Logan's in Crestwood. We will also be electing officers for next year.

Obama and Civil Rights


If you visit the Obama transition team site you can get an idea of what Barack Obama wants to accomplish in all areas.

"The Obama Administration has a comprehensive and detailed policy agenda."

Click on Civil Rights and you will lean that he includes the rights of GLBT folk as civil rights. Included are:

Employment Discrimination: This includes passage of the Fair Pay Act to ensure that women receive equal pay, as well as ENDA, the inclusive employment non-discrimination act.

Expand Hate Crimes Protection: Passage of the Matthew Shepard Act, to include sexual orientation and gender identity.

In addition you can read about repealing "Don't Ask, Don't Tell", expanding adoption rights, promoting AIDS prevention with a comprehensive AIDS/HIV strategy, empowering women to prevent HIV transmission, and repeal of the Defense of Marriage Act and ensuring "that the 1,100+ federal legal rights and benefits currently provided on the basis of marital status are extended to same-sex couples in civil unions and other legally-recognized unions."

The participation of tens of thousands in the recent protests who have never been involved in gay equality before is akin to the participation of thousands in the election who had never been involved in voting before. We are entering a new age of participation, both in general and in GLBT support. Equality Alabama, Central Alabama Pride, ACLU, Stonewall Democrats, Join the Impact, all of these organizations need your support. Become involved with one or more.

The opportunity before us is immense. Equality awaits us.

Back to the postcards. Obama will be receiving cards from all fifty states, from the state capitals, as Wakko points out, and other cities as well.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

We are in a recession, we are still at war in two different countries, every major company seems to want a government bail out.......YES...let's write the New President and tell him that we think two 'boys' should be allowed to get married.
What a waste of time.

Anonymous said...

Wakko freakin' rocks! Oh God I miss Animaniacs.

And just because we have some major pressing issues in this nation doesn't mean that other items that may or may not be of interest to you can't be dealt with. Government has been known to multitask (inefficiently however).

Oh and sometimes the ladies want to get married too (but is that considered hot and not worth disdain?).

I will be glad when the Republicans get back to supporting personal freedom and limiting government intrusion into our lives. I might start feeling better about voting for them. Until that happens I have officially gone third party.

Joe said...

Look at history. The Vietnam war did not give reason to stop the advancement of civil rights for Blacks. Obama is smart enough to handle more than one issue at a time.