On October 1, one of the Military Relligious Freedom Foundation’s clients, a sergeant in the Army, started a petition on WhiteHouse.gov to “End the Military’s Discrimination against Non-Religious Service Members.”
According to WhiteHouse.gov, 5,000 signatures within 30 days is supposed to get you a response from the White House. So, go sign the petition and then share this everywhere you know of where atheists and other assorted heathens are lurking! We only need to get a little over 4,000 more signatures on this thing by October 31. This is totally doable!
Yeah, you have to create an account and wait for a verification email if it’s your first time signing a petition there, but if you can’t at least spend a few minutes to do this to support a foxhole atheist and all the other non-religious service members that he’s petitioning the White House on behalf of, then shame on you.
Let’s help this soldier get a response from the White House!
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den1s
October 5, 2011 at 3:40 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Not sure that I should sign, being Canadian; though I am behind it all the way.
Chris Rodda
October 5, 2011 at 3:44 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Yeah, it does say you have to be an American citizen when you register to be able to sign petitions there.
Nancy New, Queen of your Regulatory Nightmare
October 5, 2011 at 4:26 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Done. I was number 933, I think.
herp
October 5, 2011 at 4:34 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Signed. 940 total so far.
b00ger
October 5, 2011 at 4:38 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
signed
Ellie
October 5, 2011 at 5:09 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
As soon as they let me register, I’ll be signing.
larianlequella
October 5, 2011 at 6:22 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Same as Ellie! Also going to cross post about this all over the place. http://larianlequella.blogspot.com/2011/10/sign-this-petition.html
sparkyca
October 5, 2011 at 9:28 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Signed and cross posted. I was #1089
barbrykost
October 5, 2011 at 9:52 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
I just signed and was 1104.
emarquardt
October 5, 2011 at 10:16 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Looks like the changed the 5,000 signatures to 25,000.
Chris Rodda
October 5, 2011 at 10:37 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Shit … they did! It was 5,000 when this petition was started on October 1! They must have just changed it! I’d start a petition to get them to change it back to petitions only needing 5,000 signatures, but then we’d have to get 25,000 freakin’ signatures on that one to get them to respond!
djfleming1945
October 5, 2011 at 10:48 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
I am in. No. 3874. Also posted a link on my FB page.
zxcier
October 5, 2011 at 11:30 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
It’s based on the number when the petition was filed, so it’s all good, but still only 1161 sigs right now..
Chris Rodda
October 5, 2011 at 11:36 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Thanks, zxcier … glad you read the “fine print.”
Now everybody get people signing this thing! I mean, c’mon, the hemp people already have like 15,000 signatures on their petition. If they can motivate that many potheads to go sign a petition, we can certainly get to 5,000!
ema
October 6, 2011 at 1:04 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Phooey, it won’t let me register. I keep getting a “The answer you entered for the CAPTCHA was not correct.” and, of course, there’s no CAPTCHA.
larianlequella
October 6, 2011 at 1:06 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Okay, my link went to https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions#%21/petition/end-military%E2%80%99s-discrimination-against-non-religious-service-members/jcfr6fWt which still shows 5000 required with 1196 gathered. Are there several versions out there?
Chris Rodda
October 6, 2011 at 1:13 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Nope, larianlequella, you’ve got the right one. It’s still 5,000 because it was started before they raised it to 25,000.
geocatherder
October 6, 2011 at 1:33 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
What Ellie @6 says.
Ellie
October 6, 2011 at 3:35 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Finally was able to register and sign and I’ve passed this along.
rwahrens
October 6, 2011 at 9:14 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
signed.
Ellie
October 7, 2011 at 12:39 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Several people to whom I passed this information have had a very hard time getting through the process. One didn’t make it at all. Makes me wonder.
bybelknap
October 8, 2011 at 12:07 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Signed and shared on face book.
dorrin
October 9, 2011 at 1:25 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
I’m afraid we aren’t going to make the 5k deadline.
63ish today, it seems that the amount of signers are decreasing. If you do the math, 22 days remaining at 63 a day is only 1.3k give or take. Given we are currently at 1.6k, that isn’t even close to 5k.
If you have groups that meet, bring this up. If you have friends that give a crap about separation of church and state, tell them. Something has to change or this petition will fall short.
adam.b
October 9, 2011 at 3:36 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Ok I tried creating an account so I could sign however I’m not receiving the verification email they send you, so yeah that’s where I’m at.
adam.b
October 9, 2011 at 6:07 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
never mind it just took forever, signing now.
ariamezzo
October 11, 2011 at 3:16 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
I’m signature #2,313. I think it’s entirely possible that this petition could reach 5,000. I think there’s been over 200 signatures today.
I also think the new threshold of 25,000 signatures for new petitions is somewhat reasonable. I checked every petition and signed each of them that I agreed with, and noticed that there are several duplicates for a number of issues, including gay rights, decriminalization of drugs, and repealing unconstitutional or needlessly invasive laws coughpatriotactcough. Requiring more signatures may reduce the number of duplicated petitions and increase the chances of an issue being brought forth. Maybe. I hope. This particular petition would never reach 25,000 without a lot more publicity, though. Hum…
Aquaria
October 14, 2011 at 7:09 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Good grief, what a pain in the ass website. I’m on a fast connection and it takes forever to get pages to load, the pages don’t load right, you’re signed in but not signed in to sign the petition–it’s clunky and ugly and stupid.
I think those DLC scumbags at the white house intentionally made it as UN-user-friendly as possible.