Liberals In California Legislature Reject TVC Marriage Amendment

May 12, 2005 – The Marriage Protection Amendments proposed by the Traditional Values Coalition were rejected in California Assembly and Senate committees on May 10th. The vote was along party lines.The amendments, ACA 3 and SCA 1 will define marriage as a one-man, one-woman union and ban civil unions or domestic partnerships that confer marriage benefits upon homosexual couples.

The amendments were authored by Assemblyman Ray Haynes (R-Murrieta) and in the Senate by Bill Morrow (R-Oceanside).

Rev. Sheldon noted: “It was imperative that we introduce a constitutional amendment to fully protect marriage and do the ‘due diligence’ of having a hearing on this legislation. We did not expect the Democrats to cooperate because we knew it would be defeated on a party line vote.”

TVC Lobbyist and Legislative Analyst Ben Lopez says: “The state legislature has decided that they know better than the people of California when it comes to marriage.

“They had an opportunity to rectify their mistake in passing a same-sex marriage bill [A.B. 19] two weeks ago and instead, they chose to slap the people in the face and force homosexual marriage upon California.”

Lopez says this latest slap in the face at California voters is energizing pro-family groups. He is convinced they will meet soon behind closed doors to get behind a constitutional amendment to be put on the ballot as an initiative “so the people can take back their legislature and so the will of the people can be respected.”

He expects this constitutional amendment initiative to be on the ballot in June of 2006 or November 2006.

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