For Immediate Release
January 26, 2004
National
Valentines Day of Action
DontAmend Atlanta
DontAmend Atlanta,
working with DontAmend.Com, is sponsoring an equal rights rally on Valentines
Day,
Saturday, February 14, 2004. Local co-endorsers include the
Atlanta Gay Mens Chorus; Karla Drenner,
openly gay Georgia Representative;
Gentle Spirit Christian Church; Georgia Equality; Grace Church;
Morehouse
College Chapter of Safe Space; Trans=Action; Unity Fellowship; the University of
Georgia Lambda Alliance and the University of Georgia Stonewall
Students.
A "Valentines Day of Action Rally" is being organized for
the Atlanta area and is set to take place on
Saturday, February 14, 2004, to
coincide with rallies scheduled to take place in cities and towns across
the
nation. The Atlanta rally will take place at the Georgia State Capitol,
on the steps of the Washington Street side, starting at 12 noon. The rally will
include speakers and entertainment provided by the Atlanta Gay Mens Chorus
and others. The purpose of the Valentines Day Action Rally is to express
opposition to the "Federal Marriage Amendment" to the U.S. Constitution, as well
as the attempt to amend the Georgia State Constitution. As well as
protesting the proposed amendments, the rally will celebrate and call for
marriage equality for all people. The rally also strives to be a
demonstration to the world that the LGBT community is comprised of your
neighbors, teachers, mechanics, lawyers, and every day law-abiding and
tax-paying citizens. Rev. Paul Turner, one of the organizers, states. We
cannot, we must not, and we will not tolerate
as a community being considered and treated as second
class citizens.
History has shown that mobilizing people around the
truth has always won civil rights. Bradley Smith, another organizer for
the rally says. The current cry to defend the sanctity of marriage reeks of
hypocrisy. Most LGBT people do not want the type of marriage, that has been
modeled by many of our heterosexual counterparts. Our cry is for no less
than full and equal benefits of marriage for all Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and
Transgender
Americans.
DontAmend
Atlanta calls on LGBT people to join together on this day and show the members
of our society nationwide that same-sex couples deserve the same legal marriage
rights that all heterosexual couples enjoy by law.
The Team of DontAmend
Atlanta
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DontAmendAtlanta/
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