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Constitutional Amendment Issues

TAKE ACTION: Oppose Writing Intolerance into the Constitution!

http://www.aclu.org/action/marriage107.html

Starting with the Bill of Rights, amendments to the U.S. Constitution have been the source of most of its protections for individual liberty. Despite this proud tradition, plans have been announced to introduce a constitutional amendment that would attack the basic rights of millions of Americans. This amendment, currently being called the "federal marriage amendment," would not only define marriage as strictly between a man and a woman, but invalidate all legal protections for unmarried couples -- gay or straight.

The legal protections that would be invalidated include state and local domestic partnership laws, laws prohibiting discrimination based on "marital status" and even laws protecting unmarried elderly couples who refrain from marrying in order to hold on to their pensions.

In short, proponents of this extreme amendment are so concerned about preventing gay marriage that they would wipe out every single law protecting nontraditional families no matter what their sexual orientation. As a result, the proposed amendment would deny all protection for the most personal decisions made by millions of families.

Keeping it Public

Please Let The President's Commission to Strengthen Social Security Know We Want The Meetings Kept Public And In The "Sunshine" Opened Unlike Cheney And His Oil Gang We Want Social Security Meetings Public!!!!

By mail: President's Commission to Strengthen Social Security
734 Jackson Place, NW
Washington, DC, 20503

By phone: (202) 343-1255
By email: comments@csss.gov For Location Of The Meeting On 08/22/01 Go To: http://www.csss.gov/meetings/082201location.html

Las Vegas Sun
http://www.lasvegassun.com

August 17, 2001

Commission to Have Closed Meetings

WASHINGTON (AP) - Out of the spotlight of federal open meeting laws, members of President Bush's Social Security commission plan to meet in private next week in what critics say is part of a growing attempt to govern by secrecy.

Continued:
http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/bw-wh/2001/aug/17/081705780.html

From: Ron Mills, Founder
Fight The Right Network
founder@fighttheright.org
http://www.fighttheright.org

Vice President Cheney: Disclose the Documents!

Vice President Dick Cheney and the Bush Administration are stonewalling the non-partisan General Accounting Office, the independent investigative arm of Congress, by refusing to turn over important documents regarding their secret energy task force.

When will House Republicans speak out? When will Cheney and Bush come clean? Send a postcard and tell Cheney, the Bush Administration, and Republicans in Congress to stop delaying and disclose the documents now!

Send Postcards and more information: http://disclosethedocuments.com