Marriage Protection Amendment Voted Down

July 20, 2006 – On July 18, the House of Representatives voted down the Marriage Protection Amendment by a vote of 236-187. The Marriage Protection Amendment (H. J. Res. 88) was opposed by Traditional Values Coalition and other pro-family groups because it did not ban homosexual civil unions and domestic partnerships in addition to homosexual marriages. If this amendment had been passed it would have enshrined in the U.S. Constitution the right to homosexual civil unions, domestic partnerships and any other counterfeit liberals concoct.

Before the vote on July 18, TVC Executive Director Andrea Lafferty described the Marriage Protection Amendment this way: “There is a net loss if this amendment ever becomes law. Protection of this sort would kill traditional marriage because it trades civil unions for marriage. Civil unions are homosexual marriages by another name. This is a poorly written resolution with an even worse sense of timing. We have just won several important court decisions in the past few weeks but the MPA proponents are still playing ‘Let’s Make A Deal,’ with the liberals and the homosexual lobby.”

She continued: “It is unlikely that the MPA will pass, and that is a good thing for traditional marriage. We need a real amendment which actually protects marriage and bans all the cheap imitations of marriage like civil unions, domestic partnerships and whichever new term the liberals concoct. And we need to involve grassroots America in this debate because activists who are fighting this battle every day are unlikely to want to horse-trade with the Left.”

Her comments were picked up in an A.P. story and reprinted all over the nation.

Read TVC’s reports on the homosexual efforts to use civil unions and domestic partnerships as incremental steps in the ultimate goal of abolishing the concept of marriage altogether: Do Homosexuals Really Want The Right To Marry?;

http://www.traditionalvalues.org/pdf_files/deathofmarriage.pdf;

http://www.traditionalvalues.org/pdf_files/SameSexMarriage.pdf;

http://www.traditionalvalues.org/modules.php?sid=2256

http://www.traditionalvalues.org/pdf_files/TVCSpecialRptHomoAttackMarriage.PDF

http://traditionalvalues.org/pdf_files/GayMarriageCivilDomestic.pdf

http://www.traditionalvalues.org/pdf_files/CivilUnions.pdf

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