(With link added by me - promoted by Dean Barker)
It's not over until it's over. Please, keep contacting Governor John Lynch about House Bill 436 and urge him to support marriage equality. Our opposition certainly is.
Write a letter, telephone, send an E-Mail, FAX, or drop in to his office and leave a note. If you see him out and about, let him know he should support marriage equality.
And thank him for allowing the discussion to occur in the Legislature -- something a certain unnamed neighboring Governor tried to stop by threatening early on, to use his one and single vote to veto.
I'm hoping John Lynch will support House Bill 436. This is an opportunity for him to become a well-remembered Governor. History treats well those leaders who stand against discrimination and in favor of equality and fairness. This is an opportunity for him to become a great Governor.
But if he doesn't, at least he allowed for the discussion, and he seemed to be listening right up to the end. It would be sad to see him use his one vote, through the power of veto, to negate those of so many others, but if he does it doesn't take away from the many good things he has done during the past five years.
Let's keep contacting Governor John Lynch. Let's urge him not to allow New Hampshire to become an island of discrimination surrounded by Canada, Vermont, Maine, and Massachusetts. That's a distinction that wouldn't positively reflect on New Hampshire values. Nor should he want to have been responsible for that. Just one signature is needed.
But whatever happens, let's keep the faith. We will have full marriage equality. Soon. If not 2009, soon. It will happen. It could happen now. With just one signature.
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