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Join the Impact THIS SATURDAY

We ask you to join us in making the LARGEST IMPACT YET!!!

On January 10th, we are asking the LGBTQ community to join us in signing an Open Letter to President Barack Obama, during a NATIONAL DOMA PROTEST.

About DOMA:
On September 21st, 1996, the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) was signed into federal law. DOMA, wrote discrimination into Federal Law with two strict regulations:

No state (or other political subdivision within the United States) need treat a relationship between persons of the same sex as a marriage, even if the relationship is considered a marriage in another state.

The Federal Government may not treat same-sex relationships as marriages for any purpose, even if concluded or recognized by one of the states.

To drive the point even further, 37 states slowly but surely adopted DOMA like provisions as a state-wide regulation further amending state Constitutions. This appalling law tells the American people that it is OK to discriminate. That it is OK to recognize the LGBTQ community as less than equal. This same law, that the California Supreme Court deemed unconstitutional set the precedence for Proposition 8. This same law has nullified many rights that come with Domestic Partnerships. This law has nullified the heterosexual rights that come with Common Law Marriage. This law blurred the lines of separation of church and state even further. And this law, is one of many that President Elect Barack Obama has PROMISED to repeal in his “Open Letter to the LGBTQ Community.”

Our Open Letter will remind President Elect Barack Obama of the promises he made to us. It will also serve as a pledge from our community that we will hold him to his promises and help him achieve them.

The Point of this event is to gather at least one million signatures on the letter to be delivered to him on his first day in office.

We can’t just put a letter online and ask that people sign it. We need to take to the streets!!

HERE’S WHAT YOU CAN DO:

Find out who is organizing a DOMA Protest in your area. (Find Your Local Gathering Here) If there isn’t one, then volunteer to organize an event, or organize to collect signatures!

Download the Open Letter and take to the streets to gain signatures.

Help collect one million signatures (in total across the nation) by the end of the day on January 10th.

Mail the collected signatures to the JTI clearinghouse address:
Join The Impact, PO Box 141491, Columbus, OH 43214

*****If we can gather over 1 million signatures we will have made LGBTQ history so please help spread the word about this protest!*****