LEGISLATIVE ALERT !!!
RELIGIOUS LIBERTY PROTECTION ACT [H.R.1691]
HEADED FOR A SENATE VOTE!!!

October 14, 1999

        The U.S. Senate is expected to vote very soon on H.R. 1691, the Religious Liberty Protection Act. This urgently needed measure passed the House of Representatives by a 3-1 margin, but is threatened by liberals who want to carve out an exception for civil rights, as though you can only protect civil rights by denying Americans the right to religious freedom.
        The Senate vote is expected to be very close. Representatives of faith groups, including Seventh-day Adventist leaders, will be meeting with Senator Feinstein's staff on October 22, and are attempting to set up a meeting with Senator Boxer, as well. We need to put the pressure on these Senators as we go into these meetings.
        The Religious Liberty Protection Act is intended to provide basic protection for the free exercise of religion, since the U.S. Supreme Court has sharply curtailed the scope of the First Amendment's protection of religious freedom This bill is even more urgent in light of a recent California Court of Appeals decision that follows the U.S. Supreme Court's 
Smith [peyote] decision. Now we lack meaningful protection for the free exercise of religion under the California Constitution as well as under the U.S. Constitution.
        This is an extremely important religious liberty bill!!!

WHAT TO DO NOW!
 

• Write, fax, e.mail or call both Senators immediately. Urge them to support H.R. 1691.  
• Distribute this alert as widely as possible. 
• Please forward this e.mail, and also copy it and pass it out in church.  
• Pray for the U.S. Senate, and for your Senators by name, that they'll do the right thing.

 ARIZONA

Senator John McCain ( R )
Russell Building, Room 241
Washington, DC 20510
Phone: 202-224-2235
Fax: 202-228-2862
Website: www.senate.gov/~mccain 
E-mail:  john_mccain@mccain.senate.gov

Senator Jon L. Kyl ( R )
Hart Building, Room 724
Washington, DC 20510
Phone: 202-224-4521
Fax: 202-224-2207
Website: www.senate.gov/~kyl/ 
E-mail: senator@kyl.senate.gov 

CALIFORNIA

Dianne Feinstein (D)
Hart Building, Room 331
Washington, DC 20510
Phone: 202-224-3841
Fax: 202-228-3954
Website: www.senate.gov/~feinstein 
E-mail:  senator@feinstein.senate.gov 

Barbara Boxer (D)
Hart Building, Room 112
Washington, DC 20510
Phone: 202-224-3553
Fax: 202-228-1338
Website: www.senate.gov/~boxer 
E-mail: senator@boxer.senate.gov 

HAWAII

Daniel K. Inouye (D)
Hart Building, Room 722
Washington, DC 20510
Phone: 202-224-3934
Fax: 202-224-6747
Website: www.senate.gov/~inouye 
E-mail:  senator@inouye.senate.gov 

Daniel K. Akaka (D)
Hart Building, Room 720
Washington, DC 20510
Phone: 202-224-6361
Fax: 202-224-2126
Website: www.senate.gov/~akaka/index.html 
E-mail:  senator@akaka.senate.gov 

NEVADA

Harry Reid (D)
Hart Building, Room 528
Washington, DC 20510
Phone: 202-224-3542
Fax: 202-224-7327
Website: www.senate.gov/~reid 
E-mail:  senator_reid@reid.senate.gov 
 

Richard H. Bryan (D)
Hart Building, Room 269
Washington, DC 20510
Phone: 202-224-6244
Fax: 202-224-1867
Website: www.senate.gov/~bryan/ 
E-mail: senator@bryan.senate.gov 

UTAH

Orrin G. Hatch ( R )
Hart Building, Room 131
Washington, DC 20510
Phone: 202-224-5251
Fax: 202-224-6331
Website: www.senate.gov/~hatch 
E-mail:   senator_hatch@hatch.senate.gov 

Robert Bennett ( R )
Hart Building, Room 431
Washington, DC 20510
Phone: 202-224-5444
Fax: 202-224-4908
Website: www.senate.gov/~bennett 
E-mail:  senator@bennett.senate.gov 

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