I'm hoping that by now you know that there are two bills in the Roundhouse this session.

One

PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO ARTICLE 20 OF THE CONSTITUTION OF NEW

MEXICO TO DEFINE MARRIAGE AS THE UNION OF ONE MAN AND ONE

WOMAN. (House Joint Resolution 4)

and one

PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO ARTICLE 20 OF THE CONSTITUTION OF NEW

MEXICO TO PROVIDE THAT THE ISSUANCE OF A MARRIAGE LICENSE SHALL

NOT BE DENIED ON THE BASIS THAT THE SEX OF BOTH APPLICANTS IS

THE SAME AND THAT NO CHURCH OR RELIGIOUS INSTITUTION SHALL BE

REQUIRED TO PERFORM A MARRIAGE CEREMONY OR RECOGNIZE A MARRIAGE

FOR RELIGIOUS PURPOSES THAT CONFLICTS WITH THE CHURCH'S OR

RELIGIOUS INSTITUTION'S BELIEFS. (House Joint Resolution 3)

If you haven't done so now is a really good time to be a bit of an activist in our State.  Please contact your State Representative and encourage them to support JR 3 and to table JR 4.  As States across the country, DC, and our military show - no harm comes to anyone by accepting the LBGTQ community.  And New Mexico ought to carry the message of acceptance and non-discrimination forward.  So if you are gay, call and speak up for yourself.  If you are gay-friendly, I ask you to add your voice to the call for equality. 

Let's pick up President Obama's words and make them true in New Mexico:

"We, the people, declare today that the most evident of truths - that all of us are created equal - is the star that guides us still; just as it guided our forebearers through Seneca Falls, and Selma, and Stonewall; just as it guided all those men and women, sung and unsung, who left footprints along this great Mall, to hear a preacher say that we cannot walk alone; to hear a King proclaim that our individual freedom is inextricably bound to the freedom of every soul on Earth."