Note that among the collection of right-wingnuts, religious loonies, garden variety bigots, and cynical political opportunists who signed on to the lawsuit brought by Arizona's scary-fundy "Christian" (Dominionist?) Alliance Defense Fund to block Governor Patterson's directive recognizing same-sex marriage are five (5) Republican legislators. Might they be from YOUR district?

Maybe they should hear about how their Constituents don't want their tax-dollars spent on their elected representitive's personal religious escapades. Also remind them that you will remember this little mis-adventure of theirs come re-election time.

o State Senator Martin J. Golden (R) Brooklyn
o State Senator Serphin R. Maltese (R) Queens
o State Assemblyman James N. Tedisco (R) Schenectady-Saratoga
o State Assemblyman Daniel J. Burling (R) Warsaw
o State Assemblyman Brian M. Kolb (R) Canandaigua
o Michael R. Long, Chairman. Conservative Party of New York State
o Shaun Marie Levine, Executive Director. Conservative Party of New York State
o Duane Motley, member New Yorkers for Constitutional Freedoms
o Jason Mcguire, member New Yorkers for Constitutional Freedoms
o Stephen P. Hayford, Esq., Coalition to Save Marriage in New York
o William C. Banuchi, Sr. Marriage & Family Savers Ministries
o Angel D. Rodriguez, (affiliation unknown)
o Piyali Dutta, (affiliation unknown)
o William Carlson, (affiliation unknown)
o Nicole Carlson, (affiliation unknown)
o Frances Vella-Marrone, Brooklyn Conservative Party

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact: Ms. Denise Penn
DenisePenn (at) aol (dot) com
949.498.8771

May 15, 2008

The American Institute of Bisexuality (ABI) applauds today's California Supreme Court ruling that the state may no longer exclude same-sex couples from civil marriage. AIB also congratulates and thanks lead counsel NCLR, Lambda Legal, the ACLU and Equality California who have been fighting for this victory for four years on behalf of all of us.

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GLAAD, NGLTF, and Freedom to Marry have collaborated on an ad campaign promoting marriage rights for “gay and lesbian” couples entitled “Marriage Matters.” It talks about the discrimination faced by “gays and lesbians” and how they are working to protect “gay and lesbian families.” Many organizations have co-signed the ad but not one bi organization was invited to sign. ( Read more... )