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Just 40 days from today, you and your fellow voters in Washington will get to decide whether same-sex couples should be allowed to marry.

We can truly make history here. With your help, the right wing will never again be able to say our side hasn’t won at the ballot.

But we’ve got to turn out voters and volunteers now if we’re going to win this – and that’s where you come in.

We’ve launched a revolutionary tool that uses the power of Facebook to let you get in touch with the people you know at home and in other key marriage battleground states – the people who, like you, are going to help win this.

It’s called Call4Equality, it’s incredibly simple to use, and it could be a total game-changer in these states. New research shows friend-to-friend contact is a hugely powerful motivator in elections.

Check out Call4Equality now. Watch the how-to video, login with Facebook, and start calling your friends and neighbors.

Call4Equality uses Facebook to remind you who you know in your home state and the other three states with marriage on the ballot and then automatically creates personalized call lists and scripts for you to drum up votes and volunteers in this election. It’s a first-of-its-kind tool, and it’s incredibly easy.

The more calls you make, the more points you’ll get – points that can earn you cool HRC prizes.

I know what you’re thinking, because I had the same thought. My friends all want to see marriage equality as bad as I do, and they’re all going to vote the right way. Why would I call them?

Here’s why: study after study shows how contact from friends helps drive turnout. One analysis this month showed how Facebook outreach about friends who voted increased turnout in 2010 by 340,000 votes!

And it’s crucial to ask friends to volunteer for these campaigns. One more volunteer could mean countless more votes in our favor. That means you – and your Facebook friends – have the power to make a difference in this election.

You don’t have to commit now. Just take two minutes to watch the video and take a look around for yourself.

HRC supporters like you ask time and again how to make a difference this election year. This is it – mobilizing our friends to make history at the ballot box this November.

I hope you’ll take a few minutes to check it out and start making some calls now.

Let’s get calling! Chad Griffin

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a message from Zach Silk

08/20/2012 Nativegrl77

We really appreciate your support.

It has helped us lay a very, VERY solid foundation for the rest of this race to defend marriage equality, and approve R74 this fall — but November is still 82 days away. And this will be a dogfight, for sure.

As we stare down Labor Day, the official start of the campaign season, it seemed the right time to update you on where we are and where we’re headed.

We’re ready for this fight, thanks to you. And we’re going to need to really buckle down in the final phase of this race to make sure that we’re ready, no matter what they throw at us.

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General Mills Gets Huge Outpouring of Support for Marriage Equality Stance – HRC.org

07/31/2012 Nativegrl77

Nearly 80k Thank General Mills for Marriage Equality Support

General Mills made headlines last month when the company announced its opposition to the discriminatory ballot measure in Minnesota that would ban committed, loving same-sex couples from marrying.

The National Organization for Marriage was, of course, not pleased – and promptly launched an ill-conceived campaign calling on consumers to boycott the iconic company for pushing a “radical social agenda.” Since the campaign’s inception, about 20,000 people have signed on.

HRC later launched an action thanking General Mills for supporting marriage equality – that action has nearly 80,000 supporters to date; four times the number of NOM supporters. Join those thanking General Mills and sign your name now.

Please, add your name to our petition. We’re sending a powerful message to General Mills that consumers back companies that support marriage equality. Just last week, Fortune 500 company Thomson Reuter also voiced its support for equality and came out against the amendment.

HRC is a proud supporter of the coalition, Minnesotans United for All Families, working to defeat the amendment banning same-sex marriage in the state. HRC has set up a special fund – HRC Minnesota Family Freedom PAC – to direct 100 percent of your contribution to defeat the anti-marriage constitutional amendment in Minnesota.

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a message from AL Franken … Repeal DOMA

06/08/2012 Nativegrl77

Hear that sound? That’s momentum — our fight for marriage equality is building steam.

We knew the Defense of Marriage Act was discriminatory. We knew it was wrong. But an appeals court in Boston just ruled that it’s unconstitutional, too.

Meanwhile, in the wake of President Obama’s endorsement of same-sex marriage, polls show that more and more Americans are ready for a country where the law treats all loving, committed relationships equally.

And here in Minnesota, surveys show that we have a great chance to defeat an anti-equality constitutional amendment — a victory that would be the first of its kind if we can pull it off.

This is the perfect time to help us keep building momentum by signing on to my petition to overturn the Defense of Marriage Act — click here to add your name today!

We still have a long way to go. Change is hard — even without right-wing groups spending lots of money to stop it from happening. We’re fighting uphill — here in Minnesota and around the country.

But the momentum is on our side. It’s just a matter of time before we end marriage discrimination in America. Well, time and hard work.

A generation from now, marriage equality will be the law of the land. And you’ll be able to look back on this moment and know that you helped to build momentum in this fight — that, because of you, America is a fairer country.

Click here to help me fight for marriage equality today!

Thanks,

P.S.: My ‘extra ask in the P.S.’ is even more important when we’re fighting for equality. Join in the fight to end DOMA today.

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The anti-gay video that’s going viral … Dan Rafter, Human Rights Campaign

05/25/2012 Nativegrl77

Have you seen this video yet? Have you shared it?

It’s shocking footage of a North Carolina pastor’s plan “to get rid of all the lesbians and queers” – by putting them all in a concentration camp until they die.

I’m completely serious. Over 30,000 HRC supporters have spoken out against this rank bigotry since we posted about it on Facebook this week. We need to triple that total before we deliver the messages next week – will you help?

WWW.HRC.ORG

Watch this horrifying video, share it with everyone you know, and sign the petition.

Here’s what he says:

“Build a great big large fence, a hundred fifty, hundred miles long… put all the lesbians in there… Do the same thing for the queers and the homosexuals and have that fence electrified so they can’t get out…”

“…And you know what, in a few years, they’ll die out… Do you know why? They can’t reproduce.”

Don’t let him get away with these sickening, hateful remarks – speak out and share this with everyone you know.

Please forward this email, share the video on Facebook and Twitter, and help spread the word. We can’t let this kind of thing go unanswered.

Thanks for standing against hate,

Dan Rafter, Online Campaigns Manager
Human Rights Campaign