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The mission of Defend Marriage is to help protect the institutions of traditional marriage and the natural family from the growing threats they face today cialis online. We carry out our mission primarily through educating the public, policy makers and the media about these threats and the serious negative impacts they are having on our nation buy cialis online. We also conduct legal research, help shape public opinion on these issues and support policies and legislation that will strengthen marriage and the family cialis online.

Defend Marriage is chaired by Richard Wilkins, who is also a professor at the Brigham Young University Law School and the Managing Director of the World Family Policy Forum. Professor Wilkins is an internationally recognized scholar and expert on legal issues related to marriage and the family cialis. A distinguished Board directs Defend Marriage buy cialis online.

Defend Marriage believes that the effort by homosexual activists and their liberal allies to force the legalization of same sex marriage is the most serious new threat to traditional marriage and the family. Currently, our primary focus is to block this effort in the United States and Canada.

In Canada, several provincial courts have ruled that same sex marriage must be permitted. We are working with various groups to educate Canadians about the dangers that legalizing same sex marriage pose to Canada's future.

Opinion polls show that a substantial majority of Americans oppose same sex marriage.  But that does not mean that it will be easy to stop the effort to legalize it.  Homosexual activists know that even in the most liberal states they stand no chance of legalizing same sex marriage through the legislative process. As a result, they are waging their campaign in the courts. They have filed lawsuits in several liberal states in hopes that liberal judges in at least one of these states will rule favorably and legalize same sex marriage in that state. 

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court has now handed down such a ruling legalizing same sex marriage. That set the stage for the next step in the game plan of the homosexual activists to force all states to accept same sex marriage. That is to apply a provision of the U.S. Constitution, the "Full Faith and Credit Clause," to force all the other states to also recognize the legality of same sex marriages. For more background and a detailed discussion of this strategy and its implications click here.

Because this strategy uses the court system it is more difficult to stop than would be a legislation-based campaign.  Once any state court legalizes same sex marriage there is only one sure way to protect the citizens in all the other states from being forced to also accept the legality of same sex marriage. That way is to amend the Constitution to prevent the application of the Full Faith and Credit Clause to marriage.  Defend Marriage is making passage of a constitutional amendment that will accomplish this our top priority in the U.S. An amendment which seeks to do this, H.J.Res. 56 has been introduced in the United States House of Representatives. Click here for an analysis of this amendment. Other amendments may also be introduced.

Amending the Constitution is not easy to do and has been done on only 17 occasions in the history of our Republic.  But it can be done--and Defend Marriage believes it must be done--to neutralize this threat.  

Defend Marriage is a project of United Families International, a 501 (c )(3) organization, meaning that contributions to support Defend Marriage are tax deductible. You can make a contribution on line here or you can print out a form to mail in a contribution. To designate your entire contribution to United Families International to go to the Defend Marriage Project, simply make your contribution in a dollar amount and 4 cents., $20.04, $50.04, etc.