FREEDOM TO MARRY
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PLEASE WRITE JUDGE KRAMER TO SHOW YOUR SUPPORT!

(FROM N.O.W. - NATIONAL ORGANIZATION OF WOMEN)

We need your help. Please write a letter of support and send it to Judge Richard Kramer at the San Francisco’s Civic Center Courthouse (full address below). Judge Kramer is the jurist who recently ruled against California’s state ban on same gender marriage.

That was, no doubt, a difficult decision for a married heterosexual Roman Catholic who was appointed by a Republican Governor. But the aftermath of his courageous decision should surprise all of us. Today Judge Kramer is being followed 24/7 by bodyguards to protect him after receiving death threats and hate mail.

You might think this story comes from Iraq, but it’s happening in San Francisco right now. It’s happening because Judge Kramer recently issued an historic decision that determined it is against California’s state constitution to deny civil marriage licenses to gay and lesbian couples.

Someone who speaks with Judge Kramer regularly reports he is depressed that mail against his decision out numbers mail in favor by a ratio of 10 to 1. He is depressed because he is bathing daily in a bath of vituperation and hatred. He is depressed because the people who oppose his decision are not interested in the rule of law but the rule of ideologies and emotions.

So, I am asking for your help. Please take out your pen or turn on your computer and write Judge Kramer a brief note of support. If you are straight, please mention this. If you live out of state, explain how it might touch and affect you to know that a California judge has had the courage to interpret the law scrupulously and in accordance with the evidence and our fundamental principles of equal justice for all, as our system requires.

Please note that Judge Kramer is known to be a conservative and prudent jurist. He is a married Catholic and a Republican, and was appointed to the bench by a Republican. So it is difficult to write off his opinion as one biased by a liberal ’activist’ judge or a jurist pursuing his or her own personal agenda.

And please, forward this email on to your own list, and ask your friends and colleagues to write as well. If we do not support and defend people who act with integrity and standup for what is right, who will?

Judge Richard Kramer
Civic Center Courthouse
400 McAllister Street
San Francisco CA 94102-4514

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