Fwd: Help Achieve Marriage Equality - The Most Important Thing You Can Do This Year

FYI

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From: smallpond <smallpond@fishinternet.com.au>
Date: 2009/7/8
Subject: Fwd: Help Achieve Marriage Equality - The Most Important Thing You Can Do This Year
To: coal@aapt.net.au
Cc: real.illawarra@gmail.com, meyers@uow.edu.au


Forwarded FYI - Jill

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From: Australian Marriage Equality <ame@australianmarriageequality.com>
Date: Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 4:42 PM
Subject: Help Achieve Marriage Equality - The Most Important Thing You Can
Do This Year
To: Australian Marriage Equality <ame@australianmarriageequality.com>


 Dear Supporter of Marriage Equality,

The Senate has launched an inquiry into marriage equality in response to the
*Marriage Equality Amendment Bill 2009* moved last week by Greens Senator
Sarah Hanson-Young.

It is extremely important that the Senate Committee receive as many
submissions in favour of marriage equality as possible because our opponents
are already mustering their support base.

Whether you're gay or straight we urge you to send in your own personal
thoughts and experiences regarding marriage equality.

For example, tell the Senate Committee what it feels like for you, your
family member or friends to be denied the right to marry.

To make it easier, we have established a web-based submission page:
www.australianmarriageequality.com/senatesubmission.htm

The page provides hints on how to make a submission, an easy-to-use online
submission form, and suggestions of what you might say.

The Senate also has a webpage through which you can make submissions:
www.aph.gov.au/Senate/committee/legcon_ctte/marriage_equality/index.htm

No deadline has yet been set for submissions, but it may be as soon as the
end of July, so please don't delay!

If you don't have time to send your own submission, you can support
AME's submission by
telling the Committee: "I wish to indicate that I fully support the
submission from Australian Marriage Equality to the inquiry into the
Marriage Equality Amendment Bill 2009". Just cut and paste these words into
our online form <https://secure4.ilisys.com.au/austroj/onlinesubmission.htm>
.

We will be in touch again soon.

Best wishes,

Peter Furness
National Convener
*Australian Marriage Equality*

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