Pam's House Blend (http://www.pamshouseblend.com/showDiary.do;jsessionid=F4E426EBD084BC5CDE683A0B970F7AAC?diaryId=1857) has useful information on how to voice your opposition to Chimperator Bush's pro-reparative therapy nominee for Surgeon General:
This appointment needs approval from the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, which is composed of the following members:
DemocratsChairman Edward Kennedy (MA)
Christopher Dodd (CT)
Tom Harkin (IA)
Barbara A. Mikulski (MD)
Jeff Bingaman (NM)Patty Murray (WA)
Jack Reed (RI)
Hillary Rodham Clinton(NY)
Barack Obama (IL)Bernard Sanders (I) (VT)
Sherrod Brown (OH)
Republicans
Michael B. Enzi (WY)
Judd Gregg (NH)
Lamar Alexander (TN)
Richard Burr (NC)
Johnny Isakson (GA)
Lisa Murkowski (AK)
Orrin G. Hatch (UT)
Pat Roberts (KS)Wayne Allard (CO)
Tom Coburn (OK)
You can get their staffers on the phone by calling the Capitol switchboard at 202 224 3121. You can submit email comments to the HELP Committee at help_comments@help.senate.gov.
The primary role of the Surgeon General is health education. A nominee who appears to reject the conclusions of the leading professional and scientific bodies--in order to embrace and promote dogmas derived from his personal religious beliefs--is a bad fit for the job, and should be rejected.
For the Democrats in the running for President, a "No" vote should be a litmus test for LGBT voters. Anyone who votes to confirm this bozo is no friend of the LGBT community.
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