A new effort from New Mexico advocates and the Courage Campaign urges U.S. senators Jeff Bingaman and Mark Udall to support legislation that would repeal the Defense of Marriage Act.
Marriage equality advocates joined by LGBT activist Cleve Jones hand delivered more than 1,000 messages to the senators’ offices in Albuquerque on Monday. The messages, which ask the senators to support the DOMA repeal legislation sponsored by Senator Diane Feinstein of California, were gathered by the Courage Campaign, partner organization Progress New Mexico, and Democracy for New Mexico, a political blog.
According to a news release, “On April 27, Mary Ellen Broderick and Barb Wold, a lesbian couple living in Albuquerque for the past 18 years and publishers of the Democracy for New Mexico blog, wrote to the three organizations’ members and readers in the state, alerting them that Sens. Bingaman and Udall are not co-sponsors of Sen. Feinstein’s legislation.
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