December 2, 2009
Pennsylvania pro-family lawmakers are currently working to introduce a Marriage Protection Amendment which would protect the institution of marriage from being redefined by our courts or legislature.
But some state lawmakers oppose this action insisting that the Pennsylvania Courts won’t let that happen here.
Let’s remind lawmakers of three common sense reasons why Pennsylvania needs a Marriage Protection Amendment:
1. State Judge Job Description: State Judges have the power to rule acts passed by legislators “unconstitutional.” Any State Judge interprets cases based upon the highest law: the State Constitution. In fact, Pennsylvania’s highest court became the first in the U.S. to be granted the power to declare laws made by elected legislators unconstitutional.
Perhaps the members of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court would not rule the Defense of Marriage Act unconstitutional but saying that they won’t is only a matter of opinion. It’s a fact that they have the power to do so.
2. History: It has happened before in other states. Iowa is a prime example. Their state governmental system is very similar to that of Pennsylvania; especially the process to amend the State Constitution.
Despite their Defense of Marriage Act, the Iowa State Supreme Court Justices declared their state DOMA unconstitutional. If it happened in Iowa, it can happen in Pennsylvania.
3. Lawmaker Job Description: Legislators have the power to pass a law redefining marriage. SB 935 is currently introduced to Pennsylvania lawmakers that would declare marriage to be defined as “any two persons” in Pennsylvania. As our state waits for a Marriage Protection Amendment, more time passes to allow other legislative action to happen.
To say Pennsylvania does not need a Marriage Protection Amendment is to leave marriage vulnerable to an activist court or an overreaching legislature.
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December 3rd, 2009 at 11:44 am
we need a marriage protection amendment, because if it happened in other states it can & will happen here in Pa.
December 3rd, 2009 at 11:51 am
Please support the Marriage protection Amendment now! I don’t want to see happen in Pennsylvania what happened in Iowa. You must act now before it is too late. Marriage should be 1 man, 1 woman the way God intended anything else is morally wrong!
Also on a different subject I do not want my tax dollars to pay for abortions. I do not want you to vote for any health care reform that pays for abortion.
December 3rd, 2009 at 4:14 pm
I agree with Donna. We must act now before it’s too late.
December 3rd, 2009 at 4:30 pm
Please support the marriage protection amendment! Though the moral and Biblical definition of marriage may appear to be secure in PA, law at present offers no way of knowing what an activist judge may do in the future.
December 3rd, 2009 at 5:01 pm
Please support the marriage protection amendment now! Though the Biblical and moral definition of marriage as a union between one man and one woman was certainly meant by the writers of the State constitution, there is no guarantee that attempts will not be made to change that in the future.
December 3rd, 2009 at 8:00 pm
The amendment would be our insurance against the activist judges in our judiciary today.
December 4th, 2009 at 8:30 pm
Not only common sense but natural law mandates to support an amendment to marriage law. Due to activism and moral relativism, the definition of marriage as a union between one man and one woman is being jeopardized in PA.
Please support the amendment.
December 5th, 2009 at 3:29 am
Please Support the marriage protection amendment Because Marrige was issused by Our Lord An only between one man an one Women. An no one else.God created adam An Eve Not John An Steve.
December 5th, 2009 at 6:13 pm
I fully support the marriage protection amendment because the Bible proposes it as God’s will and plan for the family.
December 6th, 2009 at 3:40 pm
A simple civil union is all that is needed to protect the gay friends. God created marrage between a man and woman, not man and man not girl and girl.
January 26th, 2010 at 8:08 pm
Keep God out of it….Children have a right to a relationship with the two people who created them, and same-sex marriage tramples on that right.