Thank Peter, Paul & Mary for their support of marriage equality!

[proud2BlibKansan]

Read their cease-and-desist letter telling NOM to stop playing "This Land Is Your Land"

During their recent “Summer for Marriage” tour the National Organization for Marriage played a Peter, Paul & Mary recording of Woody Guthrie’s “This Land Is Your Land” during their rallies, without the permission of the artists.
Kathleen Perrin, a participant on the Courage Campaign's Prop8TrialTracker.com, contacted Peter Yarrow and told him. Yarrow called the use of the song by NOM “heartbreaking” and said that he would be contacting NOM asking them to stop. Please read the letter to Brian Brown from Peter Yarrow and Noel Paul Stookey, surviving members of the group who performed as Peter, Paul & Mary, then take a moment to thank them for taking a stand for marriage equality.

more . . . http://www.couragecampaign.org/page/s/thankyouppm

[terrya]

1. Done and recommended.

Thanks. I was more than happy to sign that.

[classof56]

2. Thanks so much for posting this.

I just signed the letter to Peter and Paul. Wish it could have been to Mary, too! Can't tell you how much PP&M have meant to me in my life, pulling me through many a dark moment by their music. Hard to believe "NOM" is using the PP&M recording of "This Land is Your Land". An insult to them, and Woody Guthrie, too. What an ugly, mean-spirited organization is NOM. They should be ashamed!

Blessings.

[SPedigrees]

3. I signed it and added this message:

I think it is disgraceful that your song was used without your permission by this group of bigots. I'm a "folkie" from back in the 1960s and was deeply offended by this. It seems that right wing extremists have no creativity of their own so they hijack songs from the left. I hope you all sick your attorneys on these disgusting people.

[Laughing Mirror]

4. Thank you!

[proud2BlibKansan]

5. You are most welcome

:)