Please contact these 12 Republican Senators immediately and urge them to reverse course and oppose the so-called “Respect for Marriage Act,” or, at minimum, to work to amend it to protect religious liberty with the amendment offered by Senator Mike Lee. A vote will likely be taken on Monday, November 28.
Thom Tillis would not have been elected but for moral concerns, yet he is betraying his constituents who hold them!
https://wordfoundations.com/2022/09/09/28461/
The vote in North Carolina to preserve the natural definition of marriage took place a mere ten years ago. When the people of North Carolina passed Amendment 1, Thom Tillis, a Republican who later would become one of the Tar Heel state’s US Senators, was serving as the Speaker of the North Carolina House of Representatives. (The North Carolina legislative building is pictured at the top of this article.) Tillis was a member of the NC House of Representatives from 2007 to 2015 and was Speaker of the NC House from 2011 to 2015. According to Wikipedia, “In 2014, Tillis announced that he would not seek reelection to the state House, instead running for U.S. Senate against first-term Democratic incumbent Kay Hagan.” He “defeated Hagan by about 45,000 votes and a margin of 1.6%.”
Six years later, when Tillis ran for reelection in 2020, his Democrat opponent was Cal Cunningham, a former North Carolina senator.
Cunningham led Tillis in the polls for most of the year. In October 2020, Cunningham acknowledged having an extramarital affair and his lead in the polls was reduced to less than two points before election day. Tillis received 48.7% of the vote to Cunningham’s 46.9%.
Betrayal!
In light of this history, it is unconscionable that Senator Tillis is working with Democrats in the US Senate to enshrine same-sex marriage into federal law.
Action Point
Please contact Senator Tillis and the other eleven Republican senators who have voted to advance the so-called “Respect for Marriage Act. Encourage them to reconsider, or at least to work to include in the legislation the amendment offered by Senator Mike Lee of Utah that would preserve religious liberty. The current wording is inadequate to do this; it is, in the words of Senator Lee, “severely anemic.”
Roy Blunt of Missouri
—retiring
https://www.blunt.senate.gov/contact/office-locations
Washington, DC office — P: (202) 224-5721
Richard Burr of North Carolina
—retiring
https://www.burr.senate.gov/
Washington, DC office — P: (202) 224-3154
Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia
https://www.capito.senate.gov/contact/office-locations
Washington, DC office — Phone: 202-224-6472
Susan Collins of Maine
https://www.collins.senate.gov
Washington, DC office — (202) 224-2523
Cynthia Lummis of Wyoming
https://www.lummis.senate.gov
Washington, DC office — Phone: (202)-224-3424
Rob Portman of Ohio
— retiring
https://www.portman.senate.gov/index.php/meet
Washington, DC office — Phone: (202)-224-3353
Dan Sullivan of Alaska
https://www.sullivan.senate.gov
Washington, DC office — Phone: (202)-224-3004
Mitt Romney of Utah
https://www.romney.senate.gov
Washington, DC office — Phone: (202) 224-5251
Thom Tillis of North Carolina
https://www.tillis.senate.gov
Washington, DC office — Phone: (202) 224-6342
Lisa Murkowski of Alaska
https://www.murkowski.senate.gov/contact/office-locations
Washington, DC office — Phone: (202)-224-6665
Joni Ernst of Iowa
https://www.ernst.senate.gov
Washington, DC office — PHONE: (202) 224-3254
Todd Young of Indiana
https://www.young.senate.gov
Washington, DC office — P. 202-224-5623
top image: US Senate chamber, US Capitol, Washington, DC