Want to help create a more peaceful tone for community dialogue around marriage equality in Maine? Can you listen to people's thoughts and provide information without debating?

The Family Ambassador Project is a grassroots educational initiative to promote understanding of how marriage for same-sex couples will help Maine children and families.

Family Ambassadors are committed to peaceful one-to-one dialogue in which people are free to express their questions about marriage equality. Ambassadors engage parents of school-aged children, friends and community members in respectful conversations that provide nonjudgmental space for people to think and learn.

Time: an hour to read the Ambassador Toolkit and think about it... then you check in with your coordinator, wear a "Together" button and have brief conversations that are woven into your ordinary activities during October. No meetings. Once-a-week simple report on your conversations. To see what's in the toolkit, email Betsy Parsons at bparsons@mclu.org or clink on the links to the right.  Support from your coordinator and this Facebook Group.

No debating, no engagement with folks who are opposed or don't want to talk about this topic -- but willingness to listen to those working out their understanding.

Become a Family Ambassador now -- help people around you speak and learn about this issue affecting Maine children, families and communities.

And please tell all your friends about this project!

To become a Family Ambassador, contact your coordinator for a toolkit:

Aroostook County
Kate Quin-Easter
kquineaster@hotmail.com

Northern/Downeast Maine
Heather Martin-Zboray
heather@instigus.com

Southern Maine
Betsy Parsons
bparsons@mclu.org

Join our Facebook Group!

This 501c3 educational project is sponsored by the Maine Civil Liberties Union Foundation, GLAD (Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders) and Equality Maine Foundation.