Help Defend Marriage by Sending Mother's Day Cards
to President Bush and Senator Kerry!

To help defend marriage, you can easily send a Mother’s Day e-card to President Bush and/or Senator John Kerry. The e-card to President Bush expresses appreciation and support for his opposition to legalizing same sex marriage by endorsing a constitutional amendment to define marriage as the union of a man and a woman.

The e-card to Senator Kerry urges him to reconsider his opposition to an amendment that would defend marriage.

To send your card(s) follow the 3 simple steps below.

We also provide a brief overview of this issue (below) and explain how sending these e-cards can be helpful.

Step 1

Please type your name, address and e-mail address in the boxes below. You will be able to choose to send a card to either President Bush or Senator Kerry, or send cards to both of them. Your card will be automatically signed as you designate in the appropriate box and your city and state will be automatically added.

Protecting your privacy is very important to us. The information you provide will only be used for the purposes you specify. We will not provide any of this information to others. See our privacy policy.

Please tell us how you would like your card signed. For example, John and Linda Smith, Mr. and Mrs. John Smith, Thomas Smith, etc. All other fields must be filled in to send your card.

(This form is no longer active.)
All fields are required
Prefix:
Full Name:
(To protect your privacy, your street address will NOT be added to the card.)
Address:
City:
State:
Zip:
E-mail:
Protecting your privacy is very important to us. The information you provide will only be used for the purposes you specify. We will not provide any of this information to others. See our privacy policy.
Please keep me informed about this issue.

Step 2

This will be the message on the e-card to President Bush:

President Bush,

On Mother's Day 2004, your strong support for a constitutional amendment defining marriage as the union of a man and a woman is especially appreciated and timely. Throughout history, marriage has been essential to promoting strong families and providing security and stability for mothers and their children. Our nation’s future depends upon strong families and your defense of marriage is helping to protect it.

(Signed as you designate)
(Your city and state here)

To send this e-card to Pres. Bush, click the “Submit” button.

Step 3

This will be the message on the e-card to Sen. Kerry:

Senator Kerry,

On Mother's Day, we honor mothers for their crucial role in nurturing future generations. Historically marriage has been essential for strong families and provided stability and security for mothers and their children. To protect our future, we must defend marriage and the family. This requires a constitutional amendment defining marriage as the union of a man and a woman. Please reconsider your current position opposing this amendment.

(Signed as you designate)
(Your city and state here)

To send this e-card to Sen. Kerry, click the “Submit” button.

You can do even more to defend marriage by signing the United States Petition to Defend Marriage.

Please help spread the word.

You can also help defend marriage by encouraging others to send e-cards. An easy way to do this is to enter the up to ten e-mail addresses in the boxes below. They will receive an e-mail from you with the message in the box (which you can edit as you wish) with a link back to this page. Note: These e-mail addresses will be used for this purpose only.

I hope you will take a few minutes and visit the Defend Marriage Web site http://www.defendmarriage.org/defendmarriage/ecards.cfm and consider sending a Mother's Day e-card to President Bush and Senator Kerry.  Of course, generally men do not receive Mother's Day cards, especially national leaders, but this group is encouraging Americans to send them thousands of e-cards to show support for a constitutional amendment to define marriage in the U.S. as only the union of a man and a woman.

Marriage between a man and a woman has always been essential to promoting strong families and to providing stability and security for mothers and their children.  So, it is particularly appropriate to focus national attention on this amendment on the day we set aside to honor mothers.  As you know, there is increasing pressure to legalize same sex marriage, which would undermine the family.

It takes just a few minutes to send these cards and the site has more information on why this is important and how it can help.  I hope you will visit it.

Your Name:

Your E-mail:

Recommend this site by entering complete email addresses into the spaces below:
1.		6.
2.		7.
3.		8.
4.		9.
5.		10.

Brief background

Especially on Mother’s Day, we recognize how important mothers are to anchoring strong families and nurturing future generations of Americans. Throughout history and across all successful cultures, marriage between a man and a woman has always been essential to promoting strong families and to providing security and stability to mothers and their children.

Yet today in America and around the world, marriage and the family are under assault from many quarters ,particularly from those who advocate legalizing same sex marriage. To do this would negatively and forever affect how we and especially future generations would view the role of marriage and the family--institutions that are crucial to our future as a nation and a society.

Because of recent actions by the courts and some state and local governments, the only certain way we can defend traditional marriage can be defended is to amend our Constitution to specifically define it as the union of a man and a woman. (Click here for a more detailed discussion of the need for a constitutional amendment to defend marriage.) An amendment to defend marriage has been introduced in Congress and whether to legalize same sex marriage will be a campaign issue this fall.

President Bush has endorsed amending the Constitution to defend marriage by specifically defining it as the union of a man and a woman. Sending him the Mother’s Day e-card shows support for this position.

While Massachusetts Senator John Kerry, the apparent Democratic nominee for president, has said he opposes same sex marriage, he opposes a constitutional amendment to define marriage as the union of a man and a woman. The logic of his position is unclear, especially since he supports an amendment to the Massachusetts constitution to define marriage this way after a Massachusetts court ordered the legalization of same sex marriage in that state. Defend Marriage sent him a letter pointing out the apparent inconsistency of his logic on this issue and asking for qualification of his position. The text of the letter is available here.

Public pressure on Sen. Kerry, demonstrated by things such as sending this e-card, could convince him to change his current position opposing any constitutional amendment to defend marriage.

Help Defend Marriage by Sending Mother's Day Cards to President Bush and Senator Kerry!

Help Defend Marriage by Sending Mother's Day Cards
to President Bush and Senator Kerry!