Contact Your Senator! NY Marriage Equality NOW!

I have called and just sent another email to Senator Espaillat (see below). Things will only if we, along with supportive organizations like Broadway Impact, HRC’s New Yorkers for Marriage Equality, Marriage Equality USA, Freedom to Marry and others, repeatedly ask our government officials to MAKE it happen.

If you are a New Yorker please visit the NY Senate website to find your Senator and then call and email him or her and urge your Senator to bring this to a vote NOW… and make it a positive one.

My Email to Senator Espaillat:
Submitted June 23, 2011 at 3:36PM

Dear Senator Espaillat,

As one of your constituents, I beg you to please help ensure that NY passes marriage equality now.

The fact that the state currently discriminates against any community is abhorrent and I pray for the day that everyone is treated with the same respect and all are given equal rights to share in the bond of marriage.

No one has proven that marriage equality is detrimental. In fact, in the recent Independent Democratic Conference report “For Love or Money? The Economic Impact of Marriage Equality on New York State” it was determined that “New York State would experience a net gain of $184 million within the first three years following the legalization of a Marriage Equality Act.” This is a win for equal rights and a win for the state’s economic system.

I urge you to vote YES on marriage equality and to help push this to a positive vote as soon as possible.

Thank you for your time and consideration.

Sincerely,

Wilson Thomas Adkins

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