Few events in advocacy are as important or exciting: This Tuesday, January 24 at 11:00 am in Committee Room 4 at the State House, 125 West State Street in Trenton, the New Jersey Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing on S.1, the Marriage Equality and Religious Exemption Act. The Committee will vote on the bill at the end of hearing. Please join us to watch history.
Meet us as early as possible – we suggest 9:00 am or earlier – on Tuesday morning at the State House. The hearing room will be jammed, so arriving early is a must to get seats. We will be there at the crack of dawn. You can park at the Trenton Marriott, 1 West Lafayette Street, only three blocks from the State House, and then walk to the State House. Please wear your EQUALITY The American Dream t-shirt from two years ago if you have one.
WE ARE COMPILING WITNESSES TO TESTIFY FOR MARRIAGE EQUALITY. We are specifically seeking:
Civil union couples who have faced difficulties with the civil union law.
Civil union couples who want to talk about what the deprivation of marriage equality means to them.
Clergy.
LGBT Youth.
Parents or other loved ones of LGBT youth.
Supporters of marriage equality, straight or LGBT.
If you’d like to testify, please email us at Testify@GardenStateEquality.org and put TESTIFY in the subject header. Please include in the email your name, town and the easiest phone number at which to reach you, which we will not give to anyone. Please also include which category above applies to you, or any other category or anything else relevant.
Whether or not you want to testify, we beg you to join us. We need a massive crowd.
All of us on Garden State Equality’s Board thank you, the world’s greatest members, for never giving up. Game on again!
