TVC Executive Director’s Commentary On Marriage Protection Amendment

June 29, 2006 – TVC Executive Director Andrea Lafferty has recently had a commentary published in the Salt Lake Tribune. In it, she describes why the Traditional Values Coalition opposes passage of the Marriage Protection Amendment as it is currently written.She notes: “The United States needs to nail down the definition of marriage and its singular role in our culture. The most recent attempt, the Marriage Protection Amendment, was poorly worded and it went down to defeat in the Senate, but a new amendment should already be on the drawing board.”

Lafferty points out that the current MPA has two sentences. The second sentence in the MPA permits states to create homosexual civil unions or domestic partnerships as counterfeit marriage. The MPA thus enshrines homosexual “marriage” in the Constitution!

She writes: “It is hoped that the House will survey the shortcomings of the Senate’s defeated version and adopt an amendment that provides unqualified support and protection to marriage. This may be a simple, one-sentence amendment. But an amendment that starts on the state level and rolls into Washington like thunder will help energize the grassroots and also ensure that no compromises of principle go unnoticed.”

For more on the battle to protect marriage, access TVC’s Special Reports section on our web site. Reports are listed in alphabetical order and many of them deal with the issue of homosexual marriage and the future of the traditional family if homosexual marriage is legalized nationwide.

TAKE ACTION: Contact your U.S. Senators and ask that they vote NO on any marriage amendment that does not also ban homosexual civil unions, domestic partnerships, or any other counterfeit of marriage: http://capwiz.com/traditional/issues/

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