Contacts needed on marriage amendment
- May 31, 2004 - comment
Phone calls and e-mails—lots of them—are needed to move Congress to act on a constitutional amendment to protect marriage, pro-family leaders say.
“During my last trip to Washington, D.C., I spoke to several members of Congress who told me they were not hearing from their constituents about the Federal Marriage Amendment issue,” said Richard Land, president of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission. “Unless Southern Baptists and other people of faith want to see a judicially decreed, same-sex ‘marriage’ hegemony imposed on the entire country, they must translate their outrage, conviction and concern into phone calls to their senators, congressmen and the President.
“Unless Washington feels the heat from a groundswell of protest, they won’t see the light, and marriage as we have know it in America will be further imperiled. Same-sex ‘marriage’ shatters the definition of marriage rather than merely expanding it,” as some claim, Land said.
The reality of state-sanctioned marriage for homosexuals hit the country May 17, when a Massachusetts high court ruling legalizing same-sex “marriage” went into effect. Opponents are concerned out-of-state couples will return home and seek recognition of their “marriages” in their states, setting up the possibility of such unions being legal throughout the country.
The solution, the ERLC and other organizations have been saying since last year, is a constitutional amendment that defines marriage as only the union of a man and a woman. The Federal Marriage Amendment, S.J. Res. 30 in the Senate and H.J. Res. 56 in the House of Representatives, is the vehicle the ERLC and most other pro-family groups have endorsed.
Members of Congress may be contacted by calling the Capitol switchboard, (202) 224-3121.
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