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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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