The federal hate crimes bill, or the Matthew Shepard Act, will be brought to the floor this next Thursday. This means that today, tomorrow, and Saturday are the days to write your Representative expressing your support for that legislation.
Remember how similar legislation was defeated in Indiana because the crazy Right just sent in more letters about it than we did? Well, click on the image to the right to see what we need to overcome. And consider this from Pam:
Rachel Perrone of the ACLU emailed me to say that the House Majority Leader's office projects that the bill will go to the House floor next Thursday. It's time to contact your members of Congress, because they have been flooded with correspondence from the fundies, some offices reporting as many as 500-600 constituent letters generated from action items spurred on by the likes of Wildmon, Dobson, Perkins and Sheldon on the other side.We can't let them out-write us again. With over 6,000,000 Hoosiers, every Congresscritter in Indiana easily has more than 500-600 queer constituents, so we could flood their offices with more letters than the opposing side... and that's not even counting our allies.
Find your Congresscritter's home and Washington office here. Indiana Representatives are after the jump.
Peter Visclosky:
United States House of Representatives
2256 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515-1401701 East 83rd Avenue, Suite 9
Merrilville, IN 46410
Joe Donnelly:
United States House of Representatives
1218 Longworth House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515-1402207 West Colfax Street
South Bend, IN 46601-1601
Mark Souder:
United States House of Representatives
2231 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515-1403E. Ross Adair Federal Building, Room 3105
1300 South Harrison
Fort Wayne, IN 46802-3446874 North Lima Road, Suite B
Kendallville, IN 46755
Stephen E. Buyer:
United States House of Representatives
2230 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515-1404100 South Main Street
Monticello, IN 47960-2328148 North Perry Road
Plainfield, IN 461681801 I Street
Bedford, IN 47421
Dan Burton:
United States House of Representatives
2308 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515-1405209 South Washington Street
Marion, IN 46952-3803
8900 Keystone at the Crossing, Suite 1050
Indianapolis, IN 46240-7646
Mike Pence:
United States House of Representatives
1317 Longworth House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515-140650 North 5th Street
Richmond, IN 473741134 Meridian Plaza
Anderson, IN 46016204 South Walnut Street
Muncie, IN 47305
Julia Carson:
United States House of Representatives
2455 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515-1407300 East Fall Creek Parkway North Drive, Suite 300
Indianapolis, IN 46205-4258
Brad Ellsworth:
United States House of Representatives
513 Cannon House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515-1408101 NW Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, Room 124
Evansville, IN 47708901 Wabash Avenue, Suite 140
Terre Haute, IN 47807
Baron P. Hill:
United States House of Representatives
223 Cannon House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515-1409279 Quartermaster Court
Jeffersonville, IN 47130
320 West 8th Street, Suite 114
Bloomington, IN 47404
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Sen. Bayh and Rep. Carson agreed to sign on as original co-sponsors of this bill before it was introduced. Lugar and the other 8 need to be pressured.
Chris Tolzmann | April 26, 2007 1:50 PM
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Start calling, folks. And then somebody more familiar with the Bible than me please tell me where exactly Jesus ever said homosexuality is wrong. All I can find is the "judge not lest ye be judged" and "love one another as I have loved you" parts. Am I missing a page?
Jen Jorczak | April 26, 2007 2:33 PM
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Any links to talking points for the challengend ones ?
Mike | April 26, 2007 7:05 PM
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I'm getting on that for tonight, Mike. But the HRC and PFLAG websites have lots of info.
Alex Blaze | April 26, 2007 7:11 PM
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