Arizonans:
More Signatures Needed for Marriage
By Maurine Jensen
Proctor
Though
20 states now have constitutional amendments protecting marriage,
twice in the past few months —
in California and Florida —
drives to get enough signatures on petitions to put a marriage
amendment on the ballot have failed. We can’t let that happen
in Arizona.
Protect
Marriage Arizona, which is a coalition of individuals and organizations
spanning a broad religious and cultural sector in the state, has
been gathering 300,000 signatures to ensure the measure can be
on the ballot for a July 1st deadline. If you live
in Arizona, your help is needed now.
Here
are some specific steps you can take:
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As the deadline looms, we are short thousands of signatures
— and we need many people to step forward and volunteer to
pass petitions to their friends and neighbors. It is easy to have
a clipboard in your car with the petitions and ask everyone you
know to sign as you go about your daily life. You can receive petitions
by emailing info@protectmarriageaz.com
or calling 602-978-0737 or toll-free at 1-866-48MARRIAGE.
●
Even better, contact Family Leader Arizona director, Walt Schild
at familyleaderaz@cableaz.com and volunteer
a couple of hours to gather petitions at a table where the public
gathers such as a Wal-Mart or grocery store. We are working with
our friends at United Familes Arizona and Protect Marriage Arizona
to be at locations where we have access to many people who can
sign the petitions.
Don’t
assume that somebody else will do this, because without volunteers
we just can’t get sufficient names on the petitions and therefore
get a marriage amendment on the ballot.
We
watched the days tick off before the deadlines in California and
Florida — and the immense effort to gather signatures to protect
marriage come to naught. It takes people like you to step forward.
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Pass this note on to all of your friends and ask them to help.
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All the petitions that are out and circulating need to be turned
in as soon as possible. If you have been passing petitions, you
can drop them off at the following locations:
The Center for Arizona Policy
(notary available until deadline)
11000 N. Scottsdale Road Ste 120
Scottsdale, AZ
The National Association of Marriage
Enhancement
(notary available until June 15th)
14322 N. Cave Creek Rd Ste. 3
Phoenix, AZ
Below are locations where you can go
to sign the Protect Marriage Arizona Amendment.
Flagstaff
Lamb of God
Church, 2615 E 7th Avenue
Mesa
Ray Homes,
3600 E Main
Phoenix
Paradise Valley
Christian Church, Paradise Dr. & 22nd Street
KFLR Radio Station,
702 E. Thunderbird Road
Calvary Community
Church, 12612 N. Black Canyon Highway
Prescott
KGCB Radio
Station, 3741 Karicio Lane
Promised Land
Christian Store 1931 E. Highway 69 (Frontier Village Shopping
Center)
Scottsdale
The Center
for Arizona Policy Office, 11000 N. Scottsdale Road, Suite 120
Tucson
Gospel Supplies,
6032 N. Oracle & 5611 E Speedway Blvd.
The
amendment reads:
