Your Vote Really Might Count for Something

As some other bloggers, such as Jamey of This Sublime Dance, have noted, our Senate is now debating the proposed Federal Marriage Amednment.

I don't know why this proposal affects me so powerfully, but it does.  My feelings about it go far beyond my usual perplexity as to why any of us should have any interest in or views on the sexual orientations of others, far beyond my general "live and let live" philosophy, far beyond my enjoyment of life in a diverse and (on the whole) welcoming city.  I don't have a vast network of gay friends and acquantances, and I'm not a particularly political person.  But this proposed amendment strikes me as a downright twisted attempt to manipulate our Constitution in a way designed to create pain and foster bigotry and discrimination.

So last Friday night I sent off emails to my Senators, something I have never done before, to tell them that "I am 100% opposed to such a mean-spirited, unnecessary, and appalling attempt to alter our Constitution."

I added that the proposal "violates my principles as a mother, a neighbor, a member of the community, and a Christian." 

I knew it was a pointless effort.  Both my senators are Republicans, and I doubt that we've ever agreed on much.

But tonight I have discovered, thanks to The Hestia Academy for Young Wild Women, that both of my senators are undecided!  So you never know.  They will recognize my zip code as a bastion of wild-eyed liberals, but perhaps it will give them pause to know that someone who identifies herself as a mother and a Christian finds the whole exercise heinous.