Kurt Soller
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Dec 12, 2008 01:40 PM
And this time, it's from the other side! I've been yakking on about
how many e-mails and letters NEWSWEEK has received in response to our cover story this week. Many came from the American Family Association, which started an e-mail campaign directed at our CEO.
Now, after hearing about the landslide from Lisa Miller herself, the
Human Rights Campaign has organized their own stock e-mail that you can
send along to our Editor, Jon Meacham (though, trust me, I know he's
well aware of the situation). Anyway, check out this page
to read about their campaign in response to our cover (oh, how meta!)
and if you want to hear the author of the story talking about the
feedback we've received, there's a short audio file they've included
with Lisa Miller.
While we're at it, here is HRC's take on the piece, as written in the campaign they've started:
I am writing to thank you for your extensive coverage of
marriage equality for same-sex couples in the current issue of Newsweek
and on your website. It's so important that the Bible not be
continually used as a weapon against loving, committed LGBT couples who
simply want what everyone does -- to find that special person and build
a life together.
As you point out in your articles and your
poll, more and more Americans are recognizing that these couples
deserve recognition, respect and support through marriage. Regardless
of where each of us stand on the spectrum of our own religious beliefs,
treating our fellow neighbors with the equality we want afforded to us
is a universal truth.
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