Please Call Congress to Protect Our Children’s Future!
Dear Defender of Marriage,
I hope you will take a few minutes between now and Thursday,
September 30th when the House of Representatives is expected
to vote on the Federal Marriage Amendment and urge your representative
in Congress to vote for it.
The future we will pass on to our children may well ride on the outcome of this vote.
I am convinced that, unless we pass a constitutional amendment defining marriage in the United States as the union of a man and a woman, the U.S. Supreme Court in just a few years will “announce” a federal constitutional right to same-sex marriage. We need only look to the reasoning in Lawrence v Texas, where the Court found that States could not “demean” homosexual conduct. This reasoning, as the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court and trial courts in the State of Washington have already concluded, may soon require every State to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples.
If so, the core meaning of marriage will be radically altered. Throughout history, marriage – founded on sexual complementarity, lifelong commitment, and the bearing and rearing of children – has been the cornerstone of successful societies. Recognition of same-sex “marriage” will reduce this vital institution to nothing more than official recognition of the personal preferences of any two, three, four or more “marital partners.”
No positive benefits will accrue from this radical revision. All of the probable consequences will be profoundly negative. Unfortunately, however, once marriage has been drained of all meaning, it may be impossible to undue the damage.
We have listed below the co-sponsors of the Federal Marriage Amendment and we encourage you to call and thank them for supporting the Amendment. Also urge them to do whatever they can to get their colleagues to vote for the Amendment.
If your representative is not a co-sponsor, it is even more critical that you call. At this point, calling your representative’s office in Washington is the most effective thing you can do. Most congressional offices allow constituents to leave a message after business hours so you can call any time.
Please convey to your representative (or his or her staff member) these three points:
- Preserving marriage is essential to passing on a healthy and strong society to our children;
- You are convinced that a constitutional amendment is the only way we can protect marriage in the United States from being radically redefined by activist federal judges; and
- You want him or her to vote for the Federal Marriage Amendment.
We have set up a page on the on our web site where you can easily determine who your representative is and find his or her phone number. You need only enter your address into the data base.
In addition to calling yourself, I hope that you will get as many others to call as you can. Forward this e-newsletter on or make copies to distribute.
We owe much of what we are and have as a society today to the stewardship and sacrifices of the generations who have gone before. Now it is our turn—and our responsibility—to the rising generations to protect the institution of marriage for them, to do for them what they cannot do themselves.
Please join me in helping insure their future.
Sincerely,
Richard G. Wilkins
Chairman
Co-sponsors of the Federal Marriage Amendment
The following Members of Congress are co-sponsors of the Federal Marriage Amendment. If your representative is among them, they deserve a thank you. If your representative is not a co-sponsor, then please call his or her Washington office and let their staff person know that you want your representative to vote for the Federal Marriage Amendment. To find out whom your representative is and get their Washington office phone number, click here.
| Rep Aderholt, Robert B. [AL-4] Rep Akin, W. Todd [MO-2] Rep Alexander, Rodney [LA-5] Rep Bachus, Spencer [AL-6] Rep Baker, Richard H. [LA-6] Rep Ballenger, Cass [NC-10] Rep Barrett, J. Gresham [SC-3] Rep Bartlett, Roscoe G. [MD-6] Rep Barton, Joe [TX-6] Rep Beauprez, Bob [CO-7] Rep Bilirakis, Michael [FL-9] Rep Blackburn, Marsha [TN-7] Rep Blunt, Roy [MO-7] Rep Boehner, John A. [OH-8] Rep Bonilla, Henry [TX-23] Rep Boozman, John [AR-3] Rep Brady, Kevin [TX-8] Rep Brown, Henry E., Jr. [SC-1] Rep Brown-Waite, Ginny [FL-5] Rep Burgess, Michael C. [TX-26] Rep Burns, Max [GA-12] Rep Burr, Richard [NC-5] Rep Burton, Dan [IN-5] Rep Calvert, Ken [CA-44] Rep Cannon, Chris [UT-3] Rep Cantor, Eric [VA-7] Rep Carter, John R. [TX-31] Rep Chocola, Chris [IN-2] Rep Coble, Howard [NC-6] Rep Cole, Tom [OK-4] Rep Collins, Mac [GA-8] Rep Crane, Philip M. [IL-8] Rep Cubin, Barbara [WY] Rep Culberson, John Abney [TX-7] Rep Cunningham, Randy (Duke) [CA-50] Rep Davis, Jo Ann [VA-1] Rep Davis, Lincoln [TN-4] Rep Deal, Nathan [GA-10] Rep Doolittle, John T. [CA-4] Rep DeMint, Jim [SC-4] Rep Duncan, John J., Jr. [TN-2] Rep Emerson, Jo Ann [MO-8] Rep Everett, Terry [AL-2] |
Rep Feeney, Tom [FL-24] Rep Ferguson, Mike [NJ-7] Rep Flake, Jeff [AZ-6] Rep Forbes, J. Randy [VA-4] Rep Franks, Trent [AZ-2] Rep Garrett, Scott [NJ-5] Rep Gingrey, Phil [GA-11] Rep Goode, Virgil H., Jr. [VA-5] Rep Goodlatte, Bob [VA-6] Rep Gutknecht, Gil [MN-1] Rep Hall, Ralph M. [TX-4] Rep Hart, Melissa A. [PA-4] Rep Hayes, Robin [NC-8] Rep Hayworth, J. D. [AZ-5] Rep Hefley, Joel [CO-5] Rep Herger, Wally [CA-2] Rep Hoekstra, Peter [MI-2] Rep Hulshof, Kenny C. [MO-9] Rep Hunter, Duncan [CA-52] Rep Hyde, Henry J. [IL-6] Rep Isakson, Johnny [GA-6] Rep Istook, Ernest J., Jr. [OK-5] Rep Janklow, William J. [SD] Rep Johnson, Sam [TX-3] Rep Jones, Walter B., Jr. [NC-3] Rep Keller, Ric [FL-8] Rep Kennedy, Mark R. [MN-6] Rep King, Steve [IA-5] Rep Kingston, Jack [GA-1] Rep Lewis, Ron [KY-2] Rep Linder, John [GA-7] Rep Lucas, Frank D. [OK-3] Rep Lucas, Ken [KY-4] Rep Manzullo, Donald A. [IL-16] Rep Marshall, Jim [GA-3] Rep McCotter, Thaddeus G. [MI-11] Rep McIntyre, Mike [NC-7] Rep Miller, Candice S. [MI-10] Rep Miller, Gary G. [CA-42] Rep Miller, Jeff [FL-1] Rep Myrick, Sue [NC-9] Rep Neugebauer, Randy [TX-19] Rep Ney, Robert W. [OH-18] Rep Northup, Anne [KY-3] |
Rep Norwood, Charlie [GA-9] Rep Nussle, Jim [IA-1] Rep Osborne, Tom [NE-3] Rep Oxley, Michael G. [OH-4] Rep Pearce, Stevan [NM-2] Rep Pence, Mike [IN-6] Rep Peterson, Collin C. [MN-7] Rep Peterson, John E. [PA-5] Rep Pickering, Charles W. (Chip) [MS-3] Rep Pitts, Joseph R. [PA-16] Rep Pombo, Richard W. [CA-11] Rep Putnam, Adam H. [FL-12] Rep Radanovich, George P. [CA-19] Rep Rogers, Harold [KY-5] Rep Rogers, Mike D. [AL-3] Rep Rohrabacher, Dana [CA-46] Rep Ryun, Jim [KS-2] Rep Sandlin, Max [TX-1] Rep Schrock, Edward L. [VA-2] Rep Sessions, Pete [TX-32] Rep Shadegg, John B. [AZ-3] Rep Shuster, Bill [PA-9] Rep Smith, Christopher H. [NJ-4] Rep Smith, Lamar [TX-21] Rep Souder, Mark E. [IN-3] Rep Stearns, Cliff [FL-6] Rep Stenholm, Charles W. [TX-17] Rep Sullivan, John [OK-1] Rep Tancredo, Thomas G. [CO-6] Rep Tauzin, W. J. (Billy) [LA-3] Rep Taylor, Charles H. [NC-11] Rep Taylor, Gene [MS-4] Rep Tiahrt, Todd [KS-4] Rep Toomey, Patrick J. [PA-15] Rep Turner, Michael R. [OH-3] Rep Vitter, David [LA-1] Rep Wamp, Zach [TN-3] Rep Weldon, Dave [FL-15] Rep Whitfield, Ed [KY-1] Rep Wicker, Roger F. [MS-1] Rep Wilson, Joe [SC-2] Rep Wolf, Frank R. [VA-10] |
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