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clevermanka) wrote2014-02-14 08:56 am
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Leaving this public because it's a Real Need to Know
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redheadfae at Leaving this public because it's a Real Need to KnowBefore we go blaming All The Crazy on Kansas alone with the recent Anti-Anti-Discrimination Bill, here's apparently the head of the Hydra:
Cornerstone in Idaho, the Kansas Family Policy Council, and the Center for Arizona Policy, which supports the bill there, are all part of a network of 38 state “family policy councils” pressing for these laws under the umbrella of Citizen Link, the advocacy arm of the conservative Christian powerhouse Focus on the Family. Citizen Link says its aim is to “help citizens understand and passionately engage in policy issues relevant to families from a foundation firmly established in a biblical worldview.”
More info at (no surprise) Al-Jazeera America
Now.. what else can we do in KANSAS RIGHT NOW?
Stolen from Steve Maack
KANSANS--A few things to consider in opposing HB 2453 which legalizes discrimination:
1. Petitions are OK for getting people to sign on to a cause relatively easily, but they're not substitutes for contacting state legislators directly. Flood inboxes and answering machines with emails and calls.
2. The bill is currently in the senate judiciary committee, so right now contact the members of that committee: Senators Jeff King, Greg Smith, David Haley, Terry Bruce, Forrest Knox, Garrett Love, Julia Lynn, Carolyn McGinn, Mike Peterson, Pat Pettey, Mary Pilcher-Cook. You can contact your own senator, but he or she can only do something if it gets out of committee first.
3. I have heard a few rumors that now that senators smell the controversy surrounding this bill, they might want it to die in committee to save them the indignity of having to vote on it one way or the other. So the time to act is now while it's still in the Senate Judiciary Committee.
4. This Slate article (http://www.slate.com/blogs/outward/2014/02/13/kansas_anti_gay_segregation_bill_is_an_abomination.html), while I agree with its premise, says that the bill is virtually sure the pass the senate. That's not true. Not if we fight it.
5. Rep. Brunk's Eagle op-ed piece (http://www.kansas.com/2014/02/13/3284932/steve-brunk-bill-protects-religious.html) just sounds defensive and ridiculous, and I think senators realize that. Exploit that. There's unlikely any campaign donation gain from passing this bill, so if senators see that supporting the bill might cost them votes, they might oppose it.
Sorry if this sounds preachy, but there's a lot at stake here for Kansas and its residents. Thanks, if you made it all the way through this.
Cornerstone in Idaho, the Kansas Family Policy Council, and the Center for Arizona Policy, which supports the bill there, are all part of a network of 38 state “family policy councils” pressing for these laws under the umbrella of Citizen Link, the advocacy arm of the conservative Christian powerhouse Focus on the Family. Citizen Link says its aim is to “help citizens understand and passionately engage in policy issues relevant to families from a foundation firmly established in a biblical worldview.”
More info at (no surprise) Al-Jazeera America
Now.. what else can we do in KANSAS RIGHT NOW?
Stolen from Steve Maack
KANSANS--A few things to consider in opposing HB 2453 which legalizes discrimination:
1. Petitions are OK for getting people to sign on to a cause relatively easily, but they're not substitutes for contacting state legislators directly. Flood inboxes and answering machines with emails and calls.
2. The bill is currently in the senate judiciary committee, so right now contact the members of that committee: Senators Jeff King, Greg Smith, David Haley, Terry Bruce, Forrest Knox, Garrett Love, Julia Lynn, Carolyn McGinn, Mike Peterson, Pat Pettey, Mary Pilcher-Cook. You can contact your own senator, but he or she can only do something if it gets out of committee first.
3. I have heard a few rumors that now that senators smell the controversy surrounding this bill, they might want it to die in committee to save them the indignity of having to vote on it one way or the other. So the time to act is now while it's still in the Senate Judiciary Committee.
4. This Slate article (http://www.slate.com/blogs/outward/2014/02/13/kansas_anti_gay_segregation_bill_is_an_abomination.html), while I agree with its premise, says that the bill is virtually sure the pass the senate. That's not true. Not if we fight it.
5. Rep. Brunk's Eagle op-ed piece (http://www.kansas.com/2014/02/13/3284932/steve-brunk-bill-protects-religious.html) just sounds defensive and ridiculous, and I think senators realize that. Exploit that. There's unlikely any campaign donation gain from passing this bill, so if senators see that supporting the bill might cost them votes, they might oppose it.
Sorry if this sounds preachy, but there's a lot at stake here for Kansas and its residents. Thanks, if you made it all the way through this.
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Thank you, CM for reposting as well.