You Can Fight The Imposition Of Same-Sex Marriage In America

By TVC Chairman Rev. Louis P. Sheldon

On May 15, 2008, the California Supreme Court ruled 4-3 that same-sex marriage should be legal in the state. This decision was made despite millions of voters approving Proposition 22 in 2000. Proposition 22 stated clearly that the people of California wanted marriage to be only a union of one man and one woman.

Proposition 22 expressed the will of 61.4% of California citizens. But their will has been overthrown by four liberal activist judges on the California Supreme Court. This court decision proves once again why it is important to reform the judiciary system to remove activist judges and to replace them with judges who understand that their proper role is to interpret law, not create it by judicial fiat.

Fortunately, the people of California have been working for passage of a constitutional amendment to forever defend marriage from subversion by homosexual activists and judicial activists. The petition drive has already gathered over one million signatures to put the amendment on the ballot in November. These signatures have been turned into the Secretary of State for certification.

The amendment will add 14 words to the California Constitution: “Only marriage between a man and a woman is valid and recognized in California.”

Those 14 words must be added to the California Constitution in order to block the advance of the homosexual movement to overturn the centuries-old definition of marriage in our culture. The ugly truth is that homosexuals don’t really want “homosexual marriage.” What they really want is to overthrow the institution and substitute an anything goes policy on who can marry and how many can marry.

One of the key demands in the 1972 Gay Rights Platform, which has never been repudiated by homosexual activists, says this: “Repeal of all legislative provisions that restrict the sex or number of persons entering into a marriage unit.”

And, homosexual activists have openly called for the destruction of the institution of marriage. According to homosexual activist Michelangelo Signorile, “… The most subversive action lesbians and homosexuals can undertake – and one that would perhaps benefit all of society – is to transform the notion of ‘family’ altogether.” (Out magazine, Dec./Jan. 1994)

If California voters fail to pass this constitutional amendment, they can expect homosexuals from all over the nation to flood into California – and some of them may demand the “right” to “marry” two or three persons. This is the next court case. Once these people get married in California, they’ll return to their home states to file costly lawsuits to demand that the state recognize their “California marriage.” It is absurd to think that marriage can be a state-by-state issue. This threat to marriage demands not only state constitutional marriage amendments, but a federal amendment to the U.S. Constitution that fully protects marriage. It should block homosexual marriages and any other fake arrangements such as domestic partnerships, or civil unions. Anything less will be destructive of the institution of marriage.

Lawyers are working now to get the California Supreme Court to stay its decision until after the November election when voters will have a chance to pass a constitutional amendment protecting traditional marriage. A stay of this decision is needed so that no legal confusion will be created if homosexuals marry and then five months later the constitutional amendment passes and nullifies these “marriages.” The current decision does not become final for another 30 days.

As bad as the California Supreme Court decision is, there may be a silver lining to this subversive decision. It may motivate family values voters to go the polls in record numbers this November to vote for the constitutional amendment – and to vote for political candidates who share their concern for marriage, biblical morality and national security.

The California Supreme Court decision should also motivate millions of Americans nationwide to vote for candidates who will work to reform our liberal judiciary system by replacing liberal hacks with principled constitutionalists who respect the role of the three branches of government. If they fail do so, we will continue to be ruled by a judicial oligarchy instead of by the will of the American people on important moral issues and the institution of marriage.

One of the most important things concerned citizens can do outside of California is to fight for the confirmation of federal judges who believe in judicial restraint and the rule of law. Unfortunately, Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) who heads the Senate Judiciary Committee has managed to block and stall many highly qualified men and women for positions on the federal bench. It is obvious that he is stonewalling these candidates in the hope that a Democrat President will be elected in November. If either Senators Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama are elected, they will nominate radical leftist judges who will be quickly confirmed by the Democrat-controlled Senate.

WHAT YOU CAN DO: Write a letter to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger urging him to ask the California Supreme Court to put a stay on the decision legalizing homosexual marriage in the state.

If you are from California, click here.

If you are from outside of California, click here.

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