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Want to be notified if there's important legislation pending in your city or state that could affect unmarried rights? Want to receive an invitation to local gatherings of AtMP friends and supporters? (We have fundraising parties planned for NYC, San Francisco, and Boston, and more in store in other cities across the country later this year.) In order to let you know when AtMP is involved in local activities around the United States, we need to know where you live! If you already receive postal mail from AtMP from time to time, that means we have your address in our database. If not, please give us your address. You can read our privacy policy here.

Some AtMP supporters avoid marriage because they believe it's unfair that married people get special rights. The imbalance of legal rights might get much worse by the end of 2006! Several U.S. states are poised to amend their constitutions to ensure that some rights remain exclusively for one-woman/one-man married pairs. Often called Super DOMAs (after the Clinton-era Defense of Marriage Act), these state laws are designed to exclude same-sex couples from achieving the legal status of married people. If that weren't bad enough, these laws can have the side-effect of diminishing the legal status of all unmarried people and weakening the rights of domestic partners and people who use contracts to define and protect their relationships. Alaska's does this explicitly, Virginia's is vague but expected to have the same result, and there are many in-between. AtMP will be keeping an eye on–and speaking out against–these bad laws. A first step is to chart the who-what-where-when-and-how of legislative activity. Can you help us make the chart? Can you help us educate voters in your state? Let us know!

 

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