16 September 2009
Defense of Marriage Act Under Fire
Posted by Terrie Soberg under: Constitution in Peril; Judaeo-Christian Values Under Attack .
This email came from Tim Wildmon, President of the American Family Association:
Federal legislation introduced to force ‘gay marriage’ on states
Urgent: send an e-mail to your representative today!
Congressional supporters of homosexual marriage are launching an effort today to repeal the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), which directs the federal government to recognize only man-woman unions as marriages.
This law, signed by Democrat president Bill Clinton, also protects states from being forced to recognize same-sex marriages performed in other states.
DOMA provides absolutely critical protections for the institution of natural marriage, as well as protecting the right of individual states under the Tenth Amendment to define marriage as they see fit without being dictated to by the federal government.
If DOMA falls, the door will be wide open for activist judges to order one state after another to recognize same-sex marriages performed in other states.
In all 30 states where citizens have been given the chance to vote on whether one-man, one-woman marriage should be protected in their state constitutions, marriage has won convincingly. Another 15 states or so have state laws that define marriage exclusively as the union of one man and one woman.
The people in state after state have made it clear that they do not want the federal government tampering with the time-honored definition and understanding of marriage.
But gay marriage supporters such as Congressman Jerrold Nadler, lesbian Congresswoman Tammy Baldwin and homosexual Congressman Jared Polis are determined to trample on the right of the people to protect the sacred institution of marriage.
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Take Action!
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| Send an e-mail your member of Congress today and urge politely, but firmly, that he or she oppose any and all attempts at a repeal of the Defense of Marriage Act. The stakes could not be higher.It is very important that you forward this alert to your friends and family members. |
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