From California:
Well-funded anti-LGBT organizations are paying people to gather signatures and are using automated phone calls to put a constitutional amendment on the November 2008 ballot that would permanently exclude same-sex couples from marriage.
We need your help more than ever to defeat this initiative. Volunteer—just a few hours—to help encourage other people to not sign the initiative. Sign up for Equality For All’s Rapid Response team now.
http://ga1.org/EFA/join.tclThen, ask your friends to join as well.
What’s most troubling about this initiative is the great lengths our opponents will go to for signatures. Many of you—coalition partners, volunteers and concerned voters—report that the proponents of this destructive measure are harassing and deceiving people for their signatures—so please sign up to volunteer today.
I want to share with you a couple stories about this harassment: A community college employee in Southern California shared her experience with us:
“A group of petition gatherers on campus aggressively tried to trick me into signing an anti-LGBT initiative. At first, they told me they had some petitions that I was interested in signing, but after I initialed them — the woman was insistent that I also sign the other petitions that she had with her — one of which was the Protect Marriage Initiative. I think it is an outcry they would harass voters into signing petitions they do not believe in. I’m not signing anything I see on the streets because of them.”
In another instance, a petition gatherer in Northern California tried to sell completed petitions to someone who was opposed to the initiative:
“I asked him not to turn in the signatures that he had already gathered. He said that if I donated to his church, he would give me the petitions to rip up. Underneath his card table he had a little bucket for money donations to his church. He said for $7 I could have the petition, which already had about six or so signatures, and I could destroy it. I told him that I would not do this, because it could be against the law to pay to destroy the signatures.”
These tactics are blatant harassment.
We cannot give the proponents of this initiative any accidental signatures—so please help us encourage everyone to WALK AWAY and DO NOT SIGN when they see these people on the streets. If you can’t join us as a volunteer, please forward this email to others who may be able to help.
We need everyone who cares about LGBT equality to join us now.
http://www.equalityforall.com/
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