Now that the Marriage Equality bill has cleared the Illinois House Executive Committee, it
is heading for consideration on the House floor. And the battle for the hearts and minds of
individual legislators is heating up.
Here in McHenry County that battle is focusing
on Democratic Representative Jack Franks
of the 63rd District
which encompasses about half of the county.
Jack is considered a swing vote but leaning against. The rest of the county’s representatives are
all Republicans and are unanimously expected to vote against gender equal
marriage.
The Social Justice Committee of the
Unitarian Universalist Congregation in McHenry and our allies from PFLAG have lobbied Jack with a personal
visit in mass to his district office. On
Monday, opponents of the bill countered with a well publicized demonstration
outside that office—although their total numbers including children did not
equal our delegation.
Now
we learn that robo-calls targeting
voters in Jack’s district are being made by the notorious right wing American Family Association, which has
been identified by the Hatewatch program
of the Southern Poverty Law Center as
a Hate Group urging people to call
him and oppose the legislation. He may
get a ton of calls in response. It is critical that we counter that.
Call
Jack Franks Today! Call him
tomorrow! Contact your friends and
relations to call him. Leave a brief,
polite, but firm message that you support marriage equality and 1 good
reason. If you have previously supported
Jack, it doesn’t hurt to mention that as well.
Call the Woodstock office at 815 334-0063 or Springfield at 217 782-1717.
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