[Active-l] (ACTION ITEM) (PENNSYLVANIA) Focus on the Family sends out anti-marriage action item

[R'ykandar Korra'ti]

	Focus on the Family has sent out an anti-marriage-rights ACTION ITEM 
to its membership nationally asking Pennsylvania residents to call in 
to support HB3281, a state constitutional amendment to ban marriage 
rights. I don't know whether it also bans civil unions/domestic 
partnerships. I strongly urge Pennsylvania residents to call and write 
in opposing this legislation.
					- Dara

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Pennsylvania House Committee Considers Marriage Amendment
by Mona Passignano, state issues analyst

SUMMARY: If the Legislature fails to pass it, the people
will not get to vote.

Pennsylvania's marriage-protection amendment -- House Bill
2381 -- is scheduled for its first legislative vote in
committee on Wednesday. If the Pennsylvania Legislature
fails to pass the amendment, the people will not be
allowed to vote on the issue.

Without a constitutional amendment to protect it, the
definition of marriage will be in the hands of activist
judges.  In 2003, the Supreme Judicial Court of
Massachusetts ruled that homosexual couples should have
the right to marry, and in January 2006, a single judge
ruled unconstitutional a Maryland law defining marriage as
between one man and one woman.

According to Tom Shaheen with the Pennsylvania Family
Institute, "Marriage as the union of one man and one woman
could be struck down with the swing of a gavel and greatly
impact the future well-being of children, churches,
schools and society."

Every time people have been given an opportunity to vote
to protect marriage in their state constitutions, they
have overwhelmingly defined marriage as between one man
and one woman only. Pennsylvanians deserve the same
opportunity that voters in 19 other states have had. It is
imperative that you contact your representative now and
ask him or her to support the state marriage-protection
amendment. Let the people of Pennsylvania decide.

TAKE ACTION: If you are a Pennsylvania citizen, please
contact your representative and urge him or her to pass HB
2381 -- a state constitutional amendment that defines
marriage as between one man and one woman. You can find
contact information in the CitizenLink Action Center.

http://www3.capwiz.com/fof/state/main/?state=PA&view=myofficials

For more information about the Pennsylvania
marriage-protection amendment, visit the Pennsylvania
Family Institute and Pennsylvania for Marriage Web sites.

http://www.pafamily.org
http://www.pa4marriage.org

(NOTE: Referral to Web sites not produced by Focus on the
Family is for informational purposes only and does not
constitute an endorsement of the sites' content.)

This message paid for by Focus on the Family Action.