Saturday, January 22, 2011

Action Alert: Student Religious Liberties Act (SB2151)

Big thanks to Oliver for the post about the Student Religious Liberties Act of 2011. This is not one we can afford to ignore, as it would be devastating to science education in our state.

Who Should You Contact?

It appears that the bill has been referred to the Senate Education Committee. Therefore, I suspect that is who we should plan to contact first. Here is what I could find about the membership of this committee:

Videt Carmichael, Chairman

Gray Tollison, Vice-Chairman

Members: David Blount; Hob Bryan; Terry C. Burton; Doug E. Davis; Merle Flowers; Alice Harden; David Jordan; Tom King; Chris McDaniel; Bennie L. Turner; Michael Watson; J. P. Wilemon, Jr.; Lee Yancey

How Do You Contact Them?

Here is the contact information for all Senators. It should be fairly easy to write, email, or call each of the senators on this committee and explain why this bill should be allowed to die in committee. In fact, I'll make it even easier. Here are the email addresses for everyone on the committee that has one (two members do not):

vcarmichael@senate.ms.gov, gtollison@senate.ms.gov, dblount@senate.ms.gov, tburton@senate.ms.gov, mflowers@senate.ms.gov, aharden@senate.ms.gov, djordan@senate.ms.gov, tking@senate.ms.gov, cmcdaniel@senate.ms.gov, bturner@senate.ms.gov, mwatson@senate.ms.gov, jwilemon@senate.ms.gov, lyancey@senate.ms.gov

You can simply copy and paste this into your preferred email program. If you receive a reply, please let us know so we can share the news here.

Thank you for your help.

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