Marriage Amendment

There is another step to protecting marriage that we can do today. The Federal Marriage Amendment is going to take a while. In the process, we must find candidates willing to work for marriage in both parties and fund them. We can also pay very close attention to state marriage amendments. A few key states like Florida and Pennsylvania are still without them. Not good. Pennsylvania still does not have the ballot initiative which means only the legislature can pass this amendment. That makes it very tough on the people. Florida has a good amendment petition in circulation for 2008. If you can sign it, you should. Now there is a bigger problem. Big business wants to change the Florida Constitution to require a 60% majority to pass any future constitutional amendments. This measure is a direct threat to the Florida marriage amendment. 44 states currently protect marriage but only 19 have state constitutional amendments. Granted, these amendments are worthless if the US Supreme Court decides to pull a Roe v. Wade attack on marriage – or are they? If every state in the union had a constitutional definition of traditional marriage do you think the US Supreme Court would dare override all 50 states? Do you think the President would enforce such an action? To learn more about the realities of this historic debate please order a copy of Untangling the Marriage Debate.