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March 20, 2009
H.B. 300 Update
On Monday, March 16th, the AFA of PA distributed 203 packets of information to legislators in Harrisburg – one for each member of the State House. These packets explained what the ramifications on Pennsylvania citizens would be if H.B. 300 was to become law.
The following day hundreds of homosexual activists and ‘their allies’ held a “Rock the Dome” rally in support of H.B.300. As outlined in this Post Gazette article, the game plan is for those who identify as homosexual to contact their State Representatives in the next few weeks to ask them to support H.B. 300. Thus we must counter that effort and contact our State Reps and ask them to oppose this bill.
NOTE: Bruce Kraus, the Pittsburgh City Council member mentioned in the Post-Gazette article, is an openly homosexual man who was elected to City Council in 2008. Since that time he has convinced the City Council to start a Domestic Partner Registry in Pittsburgh and is pushing Allegheny County to adopt a county-wide ordinance similar to H.B. 300.
To put these demands in perspective:
To the media, homosexual organizations quote the debunked Kinsey studies to say that 10% of the population identify as homosexual. If that were the case, 1,100,000 Pennsylvanians would be homosexual. But these organizations know those numbers are not accurate because in legal briefs filed by them, they acknowledge that less that 3% of the population identify as homosexual. In fact, the Human Rights Campaign, which claims to be the largest homosexual lobby group in the nation, commissioned a study last year which showed that 2.9% of the U.S. population identify as ‘gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender.’ If Pennsylvania follows the national trend, that means approximately 319,000 Pennsylvania residents identify as ‘gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender.’ This very small percentage is trying to force the remaining 10,681,000 Pennsylvania residents through force of law to accept their lifestyle choice as normal.
H.B. 300 is currently in the House Appropriations Committee. If your State Representative is on this Committee he or she needs to hear from you. Their next scheduled meeting is March 23rd, although at this point in time they do not have an agenda posted so we do not know if H.B. 300 is to be discussed that day.
BUT there are other steps you can take . . .
If concerned, these are the steps you can take:
1.) Even if your State House member is not on the House Appropriations Committee, please contact him or her and ask them to vote ‘no’ on H.B. 300. Click here to find your member of the House.
2.) If H.B. 300 is voted out of this Committee, the Majority Leader Rep. Todd Eachus and the Speaker of the House Keith McCall control which bills get called up for a floor vote. Please call them and ask that H.B. 300 NOT be brought forward for a vote. State Representative Todd Eachus’ Hazleton District Office number is (570) 450-7905; Harrisburg office number is (717) 787-2229. Representative Keith McCall’s Lansford (Carbon County) District Office number is (570) 645-7585; his Harrisburg numbers are (717) 787-4610 and (717) 783-1375.
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