Important Action Alert!

Tell Governor Schwarzenegger That You Appreciate
and Support His Commitment to Veto AB 849

Action requested

If you have not already done so, please contact Governor Schwarzenegger and express your appreciation and support for his commitment to veto AB 849, the bill the legislature recently passed which would legalize same-sex marriage. By doing this, you will help neutralize the massive pressure from homosexual activists and their allies to get him to reverse his commitment to veto this bill and instead sign it into law. (A brief summary giving more details of this situation is provided below.)

THE PRESSURE BEING PUT ON THE GOVERNOR IS INTENSE AND INCREASING.

PLEASE ACT TODAY!

We make it easy for you to send the Governor a suggested e-mail (which you can edit as you wish) through a special feature on our Web site. It only takes a couple of minutes and a single mouse click.

We also urge you to contact as many others as possible and encourage them to also e-mail their support to the Governor. You can do this by forwarding this alert on to them or through a special feature on our Web site.

Brief Background on the Situation

Within a day of the Assembly passing AB-849, the bill which would legalize same-sex marriage in California, Governor Schwarzenegger announced that he would veto it. This was the responsible position for him to take. The legislature totally ignored the clear will of the overwhelming majority of Californians who passed the initiative statute, Proposition 22, in 2000 which limits marriage only to the union of a man and a woman.

This bill also clearly violates our state constitution which does not permit the legislature to reverse an initiative statue. It can only be reversed by a direct majority vote of the people.

Homosexual activists and their allies have unleashed a tidal wave of pressure on the Governor to try to get him to change his mind. One homosexual activist group boasts that it had generated more than 50,000 e-mails in the first couple of days and their goal is to generate a million e-mails, calls and letters by September 23rd. Pro-homosexual legislators are holding off sending him the bill until that date, the last possible day they can send it to him, to give this pressure campaign the maximum time to work on him.

To neutralize these intense pressure tactics, it is critical that pro-marriage Californians contact the Governor and express their appreciation for his commitment to veto AB 849 and let him know that they support him.

We make it easy to send him a suggested e-mail message (which you can edit as you wish) through a special feature on our Web site.

Please Act Today!

Also, please help even more by forwarding this on to others!

United Families California • PO Box 7653 • La Verne, CA 91750-9998