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Monday, July 23, 2007

Good News from Mass Equality !!!

Dear Countess,

In a statement released this evening, the leading marriage equality opponents, VoteonMarriage.org and the Massachusetts Family Institute, stated that they will not attempt to re-introduce an anti-gay amendment for the 2010 ballot. If no other group advances a petition, the earliest a new amendment could be put on the ballot is 2012.
This is terrific news. Our opponents recognize what we have known for awhile: support for marriage equality is strong, and support for taking it away is dwindling -- both in the legislature and in the public at large.

At the same time, our opponents also made clear that they are not going away. Their stated plan now is simple: to reverse the gains we have made in the Legislature by replacing pro-equality legislators with officials who would seek to take the right to marry away from same-sex couples.
What does that mean for us? If we are going to continue to keep marriage equality safe in Massachusetts, we need to do everything we can to protect our pro-equality legislators and continue to increase our pro-equality margin in the State House.

We need to support those legislators who voted with us -- with our time, with our money, and, on Election Day, with our votes.

Please keep an eye out for future updates on ways you can help protect marriage equality in Massachusetts by supporting pro-equality candidates and incumbents.
In the meantime, if your legislator was one of the 151 who voted with us on June 14th, please take a moment to thank him or her if you haven't already.

Sincerely,
Marc Solomon, Campaign Director

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