FIRST REPORT: The following is a statment just released by the Lakewood Vaad: A bill has been introduced in the New Jersey Legislature to “redefine” the long-established meaning of conventional marriage to include lifestyles that are an affront to our Torah, our moral principles and the family values shared by most Americans. Our community cannot stand silent without a strong protest of this hurtful proposal. Additionally, there is the real issue of our religious freedom. America has a long and precious tradition of allowing full freedom for us to practice our religion as defined by the Torah and our Rabbinical authorities. Passage of this bill may infringe on those freedoms by forcing the legal acceptance of deviant and immoral lifestyles. The NJ Senate is scheduled to vote on this bill this Thursday. The vote is expected to be very close.
Please contact every NJ senator you can to politely express your vehement opposition to this proposed “alternative marriage” legislation.
Sample Call: “I would like to express my deep opposition to the Redefining Marriage Bill. It goes against the core family values America was built on”.
Senator Diane B. Allen (609) 239-2800
Senator Bill Baroni (609) 631-9988
Senator Christopher Bateman (908) 526-3600
Senator James Beach (856) 489-3442
Senator Jennifer Beck (732) 933-1591
Senator Anthony R. Bucco (973) 627-9700
Senator Barbara Buono (732) 205-1372
Senator Gerald Cardinale (201) 567-2324
Senator Andrew R. Ciesla (732) 840-9028
Senator Richard J. Codey (973) 731-6770
Senator Christopher J. Connors (609) 693-6700
Senator Sandra B. Cunningham (201) 451-5100
Senator Michael J. Doherty (908) 835-0552
Senator Nia H. Gill (973) 509-0388
Senator John A. Girgenti (973) 427-1229
Senator Robert M. Gordon 703-9779
Senator Philip E. Haines (609) 654-1498
Senator Sean T. Kean (732) 974-0400
Senator Thomas H. Kean, Jr. (908) 232-3673 (908) 918-0414 (908) 232-2073
Senator Joseph M. Kyrillos, Jr. (732) 671-3206
Senator Raymond J. Lesniak (908) 624-0880
Senator Fred H. Madden, Jr. (856) 232-6700 (856) 401-3073
Senator Kevin J. O’Toole (973) 237-1360
Senator Steven V. Oroho (973) 300-0200 (973) 584-4670
Senator Joseph Pennacchio (973) 227-4012
Senator Dana L. Redd (856) 225-9068
Senator Ronald L. Rice (973) 371-5665
Senator M. Teresa Ruiz (973) 484-1000
Senator Nicholas J. Sacco (201) 295-0200
Senator Paul A. Sarlo (201) 804-8118
Senator Nicholas P. Scutari (908) 587-0404
Senator Robert W. Singer (732) 901-0702
Senator Bob Smith (732) 752-0770
Senator Brian P. Stack (201) 861-5091 (201) 558-7926 S
enator Stephen M. Sweeney (856) 251-9801 (856) 455-1011 (856) 339-0808
Senator Shirley K. Turner (609) 530-3277
Senator Jeff Van Drew (609) 465-0700 (856) 765-0891 (856) 696-7109 (609) 926-3779
Senator Joseph F. Vitale (732) 855-7441
Senator Loretta Weinberg (201) 928-0100
Senator Jim Whelan (609) 383-1388
Finally the VAAD awakens!!
Maybe they should do the same on abuse!
live free
good morning
too little too late
This bill will not force you to accept toeiva marriage any more then you are forced to accept the legitmacy of intermarriage. (or accept non jewish kids into your relgious private schools, or make housing developments were you only sell to orthodox jews ect.)
To claim otherwise is silly.
How does the VAAD calim that toeiva marriage is terrible and request people to call their Seantors when they endorsed Corzine.
personally I could care less if they put this into law or not this country was over when they put in Obama. I don’t think we will ever recover from him. I’m looking to move to Israel and I think we all should.
We seem to want it both ways. we vote them into office knowing were they stand on the issue, and then wonder why they vote that way. shame on us
Who cares if it passes or not?? Will we all be exposed to that lifestyle anymore than we are already?? Do you think men might all of a sudden decide to marry a man because of this?? Nobody is choosing this lifestyle regardless if this passes or not. Let them marry eachother! I fail to see how this will affect me.
Rashi in Parshas Noach states clearly that the aveira of one person affects the rest of the world.
I think if this is so important to the vaad, the yeshiva should close for the day and have all yungerleit sit home ion the phone & call these phone numbers.
America is the land of freedom, this is why everyone from around the world comes to live in America. You should be able to live your life freely with whom ever it is, male-male, female-female, black-white, etc..
If you don’t like the living arrangements that people make in America then leave. Live day by day in the way that makes you and your love one happy.
We should all speak out and protest more important things in life instead of who we can marry and spend the rest of our lives with.
Why only yeshiva people should sit home for the day? Working people should too!
I called all 40 senators on this list. It took less than 1 hour. The area code for Sen. Gordon is 201. Baroni and Girganti could not be reached, even to leave a message. Only 5 senators said they agree with the opposition of the bill: Bateman, Beck, Doherty, Haines and Thomas H. Kean. That doesn’t mean the others agree with the bill, but they did not volunteer that information. I do not have time to do this, but I did it in the name of R. Avigdor Miller, ZT”L, who surely would have had us sign our names on the list to the Senators that would have been on the bima in his shul.
to sean bob singer is not voting against it?
He didn’t volunteer that info. I guess I should have asked each one what their view is, but too late for me. Someone else would like to give it a run?
Can someone please post email addresses. Thank you!!
I’m pretty certain such a list would NOT have been on the bima in his shul since such actions violate federal law and would have caused his shul to lose its nonprofit and tax exempt status.
Sorry, okay, you know better than me. But I do remember going there on Thurs. evenings and signing petitions for things like this that would be then given to the legislators.
Quite a few asked if I was for or against the bill. When I inquired if the senator had a position on the matter, the reply was they wanted to see where poeple stand on the issue. Obviously the popular opinion can influence their vote. If they sense an overwhelming opposition they will oppose. Everyone who possibly can needs to call in.
Senator Jennifer Beck (732) 933-1591 Office was the only one who had the chutzpah to say she voted for the bill last night and will vote for it when it comes to the floor. Ring her phone off the hook.
Is there freedom of speech here? Or is tls another pupet for the “vaad”? Why won’t you post my comments?
beck voted NO in commitee
what does langert say?
Beck’s office told me that she voted against it in committtee.
why are u not posting my comment bec. its critical of the vaad?
Senator Beck”s office also told me that she voted against it last night in committee so either #21 misunderstood them or someone’s lying
What bothers me about this whole ruckus is that when I saw the video of the demonstration in Trenton, the only Rabbi looking people there were those two clowns who hug the Iranian leader and are worthless. Where were the real Rabbis?
They were engaging in quiet askanus per our mesorah.
I misunderstood. Thanks 23, 25 and 27 for the correction.
Please!!! Senator Jennifer Beck voted AGAINST the bill as did all R’s – except for the one who is accused of being a foigel himself.
This site is heavily censored.
Anything even slightly offending the “holy” Vaad, will not make it on.
Sheesh!
in the know: mah zeh foigel? if you know the word i think your guilty;)
Hello, I said at 12 pm today that I called and she was one of only 5 who volunteered to tell me they were opposed to the bill.
Ha site haze nire l’ainom bnei bris , kemo # vov & # yud gimel …….
Danke, kugel, farshtain.