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Marriage and the Right to Vote
Marriage Matters! With wealthy gay activists mobilizing all across the country to legalize homosexual marriage, there's never been a more important time to preserve and protect marriage in the District of Columbia once and for all. Marriage has served as the foundation of society and the bedrock of families for millennia. Marriage brings the two complementary halves of society together to create binding commitments for themselves, for their children and for all of civilization. Marriage deserves to be preserved and protected from special interest groups and politicians who would redefine the institution in order to satisfy small, but vocal groups of gay marriage activists. Marriage is and has always has been between a man and a woman. There are important reasons to keep it so. Marriage binds men and women together and creates the ideal situation for nurturing and rearing children. While death and divorce too often prevent it, the ideal situation for children is to be raised by a married father and mother. Children need both a mother and a father. Every same-sex relationship involving children intentionally denies children either a mother or a father.
Marriage Matters! This past May, the District Council passed a law providing for homosexual marriages performed elsewhere to be recognized as a valid marriage in the District of Columbia. This law was passed without meaningful opportunity for debate or even notice to the public. Council representatives refused to allow voters to cast ballots on this critical issue before it was rushed into law.
Unfortunately, the District's Board of Elections prevented citizens from pursuing a referendum on this issue, denying voters the right to have their own say.
Now, some Council members are vowing to go further and attempt to legalize homosexual marriage in the District itself. If they succeed, there will be profound consequences to citizens.
Marriage Matters! It is time for the People of the District of Columbia to be able to decide whether homosexual marriage should be legalized. Voters in 30 states have already been able to decide this issue themselves, and it is high time that voters in the District of Columbia be able to do so as well. A voter initiative has been filed to preserve and protect traditional marriage. Backed by a coalition of community, civic and religious leaders of every faith, the "Defense of Marriage Initiative" will ensure that marriage in the District of Columbia will remain as it always has been - between a man and a woman.
Preserving marriage as it has always been understood is not an attack on gays. Gay couples in the District of Columbia already have full legal rights under our extensive domestic partnership laws. Rather, the Defense of Marriage Initiative is an affirmation of marriage as an essential element of society.
Please join with us today to support traditional marriage and the Defense of Marriage Initiative. Demand that your voice be heard and that voters be allowed to decide this issue for themselves!
Please support Stand for Marriage D.C. now!
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Marriage Matters! With wealthy gay activists mobilizing all across the country to legalize homosexual marriage, there's never been a more important time to preserve and protect marriage in the District of Columbia once and for all. Marriage has served as the foundation of society and the bedrock of families for millennia. Marriage brings the two complementary halves of society together to create binding commitments for themselves, for their children and for all of civilization. Marriage deserves to be preserved and protected from special interest groups and politicians who would redefine the institution in order to satisfy small, but vocal groups of gay marriage activists. Marriage is and has always has been between a man and a woman. There are important reasons to keep it so. Marriage binds men and women together and creates the ideal situation for nurturing and rearing children. While death and divorce too often prevent it, the ideal situation for children is to be raised by a married father and mother. Children need both a mother and a father. Every same-sex relationship involving children intentionally denies children either a mother or a father.
Marriage Matters! This past May, the District Council passed a law providing for homosexual marriages performed elsewhere to be recognized as a valid marriage in the District of Columbia. This law was passed without meaningful opportunity for debate or even notice to the public. Council representatives refused to allow voters to cast ballots on this critical issue before it was rushed into law.
Unfortunately, the District's Board of Elections prevented citizens from pursuing a referendum on this issue, denying voters the right to have their own say.
Now, some Council members are vowing to go further and attempt to legalize homosexual marriage in the District itself. If they succeed, there will be profound consequences to citizens.
Marriage Matters! It is time for the People of the District of Columbia to be able to decide whether homosexual marriage should be legalized. Voters in 30 states have already been able to decide this issue themselves, and it is high time that voters in the District of Columbia be able to do so as well. A voter initiative has been filed to preserve and protect traditional marriage. Backed by a coalition of community, civic and religious leaders of every faith, the "Defense of Marriage Initiative" will ensure that marriage in the District of Columbia will remain as it always has been - between a man and a woman.
Preserving marriage as it has always been understood is not an attack on gays. Gay couples in the District of Columbia already have full legal rights under our extensive domestic partnership laws. Rather, the Defense of Marriage Initiative is an affirmation of marriage as an essential element of society.
Please join with us today to support traditional marriage and the Defense of Marriage Initiative. Demand that your voice be heard and that voters be allowed to decide this issue for themselves!
Please support Stand for Marriage D.C. now!
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