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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: January 25, 2008
CONTACT: Diane Gramley 1.814.437.5355 or 1.814.271.9078
Senator Brubaker’s Introduction of PA Marriage Protection Amendment is Needed
(Harrisburg) – Today in Maryland, legislation to allow homosexuals to marry will be introduced. Homosexuals in New Jersey want to take the next step from civil unions to legalized same-sex marriage. New York pro-family legislators are being targeted for removal by homosexual groups. In response to the efforts just across the northern, eastern and southern borders of Pennsylvania, the American Family Association of Pennsylvania (AFA of PA), a statewide traditional values group said, NOW is the time to protect marriage in Pennsylvania.
“Senator Brubaker’s introduction of Pennsylvania’s Marriage Protection Amendment could not have been better timed. One man one woman marriage is being assaulted on three sides of Pennsylvania – only in Ohio which has a Marriage Protection Amendment is marriage safe. Now is the time to act,” Diane Gramley, president of the AFA of PA remarked.
The introduction of SB 1250 which includes to prohibition of civil unions is essential. A one sentence amendment is not adequate to protect marriage and families. Civil unions have been legalized in Vermont, Connecticut, New Jersey and, as of January 1st, New Hampshire. In three of those four states homosexual activists are actively seeking to have same-sex marriage legalized. If a state is really serious about protecting traditional marriage and the natural family, its legislative body will provide their constituents the opportunity to vote on a Marriage Protection Amendment.
Such an amendment does not write discrimination into the Constitution, as critics of this amendment claim. Homosexuals can marry and can continue to marry if a Marriage Protection Amendment is passed . . . they simply cannot marry each other. There are already marriage guidelines such as a father cannot marry his daughter, a mother her son, a brother his sister, etc.
“The preservation of natural marriage is an important issue. It is essential for the common good of Pennsylvania to take every step necessary to protect traditional marriage. Without strong marriages any society will suffer, even as ours is now. To legalize same-sex marriage will further undermine marriage even as it has in the Scandinavian countries,” Gramley remarked further.
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