posted on July 22, 2004 03:57:16 PM new
By David Thibault
CNSNews.com Managing Editor
July 22, 2004
(CNSNews.com) - U.S. House members Thursday voted to strengthen a law that defines marriage as an act between one man and one woman. By a vote of 233 to 194, the House action is also seen as a defeat for homosexual activists seeking to export the legal rights of marriage from one state to another.
Massachusetts has legalized homosexual marriage and San Francisco city officials earlier this year allowed thousands of homosexual marriages to take place, but most states and local jurisdictions still legally limit marriage to heterosexuals.
The Marriage Protection Act, if signed into law, would prevent federal courts from hearing challenges to a key provision of the similarly titled Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), which became law in 1996.
DOMA's Full Faith and Credit section asserts that states do not have to recognize marriages from other states that violate their own state laws or public policy.
"The House has done its part today to build a wall of defense around the institution of marriage," said Michael Schwartz, vice president for government relations at the conservative organization, Concerned Women for America.
Federal judges will not be able to use the Full Faith and Credit clause "as an excuse to overturn the governing bodies of states that choose to defend marriage from the wildfire that activists have started in Massachusetts," Schwartz added. "Now we need the Senate to act quickly to pass this legislation."
The Human Rights Campaign (HRC), America's largest homosexual activist group, labeled the Marriage Protection Act "a dangerous and discriminatory measure" that would "block access for the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community to the judicial system."
HRC President Cheryl Jacques also criticized the timing of Thursday's House vote, which occurred just after the 9/11 Commission report was issued.
"Congress today was sent a historic message to focus on terrorism and it focused on discrimination instead," Jacques stated. "We will work to ensure that this measure is soundly rejected in the Senate."
"The natural family is a man and woman bound in a lifelong covenant of marriage for the purposes of:
*the continuation of the human species,
*the rearing of children,
*the regulation of sexuality,
*the provision of mutual support and protection,
*the creation of an altruistic domestic economy, and
*the maintenance of bonds between the generations."
posted on July 22, 2004 04:18:54 PM new
Even if the House votes on this and it passes, it will still have to pass in the senate to become law. And we know what happened in the senate last time this topic was brought up for discussion.
Let's have a BBQ, Texas style, ROAST BUSH
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posted on July 22, 2004 04:38:12 PM new
With the Constitutional amendment not being allowed to be voted on....maybe there's more of a chance this bill will pass in the Senate.
No matter though....it still will travel the path to the USSC. But I'm glad to see they're not just dropping the issue.
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posted on July 22, 2004 08:40:44 PM new
Why wouldn't it pass in the senate? That is what everyone has been screaming for to let the states handle it... this will ensure each state can handle it exactly as they want to....
Pretty hypocritcal come from the homosexual community...
posted on July 23, 2004 09:15:06 AM new
You are correct, 12. Unless it agrees with the homosexual agenda, they will scream, shout, and beat their chests to try to get it the way they want it.
The homosexuals just want a giant social program instituted. One in which our children will suffer in the end.
They feel that the break down of marraige is the fault of sinful people, and in that they are correct: however, when the courts decided that no-fault divorce was a great idea, it led us down this path. It was basicly stating that if it does not feel right, get rid of it.
Now they wish to force their agenda down everyone's throat, not by legislation, but by court fiat. Because they know that their form of lifestyle, of which they choose, is considered abnormal to the vast majority of Americans.
So when the Senate votes to pass this bill, it will really be a step in the right direction to preserve the santicity of marraige.
In Christ,
Rick
Genesis 2:23-25
"I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: "I'm ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I do not accept His claim to be God." That is one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic....or else he would be the devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God: or else a madman or something worse. You can shut Him up for a fool, you can spit at Him and kill Him as a demon; or you can fall at His feet and call Him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about His being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to."
C.S. Lewis: "Mere Christianity"
posted on July 23, 2004 09:30:54 AM new
CC: How can you blame the gay community for the breakdown of marriage when it has been the straight people that have ruined it?
In your opinion what has caused the decline of marriage rates and the increased in divorce rates over the past 30 years? Do you feel divorce is the right for the straight community?
What is the gay agenda in your opinion because every one has their own opinion on this?
Let's have a BBQ, Texas style, ROAST BUSH
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All Things Just Keep Getting Better
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We the people, in order to form a more perfect Union....
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