Federal Marriage Constitutional Amendment
When you think it is safe to go into the water, look out. It
looks like we have a big problem again. Not only with President
Bush (merely an accomplice) but with so-called 'Christian leaders'.
It frankly grieves us that we are sheep without a shepherd. We
assume these folks are doing their best and are representing God and us
in the political arena. We are mislead, as the 'leaders' have also
lost direction, forgetting their anchor to the Bible.
Family Research Council, James Dobson, Christian Coalition, Tony
Perkins, Gary
Bauer, and others are beating the drum in this election season to fight
for a federal constitutional amendment for marriage between a man and a
woman. Few, including Rev. Louis Shelton (Traditional Values
Coalition), have stood against this to their credit.
Let us consider why. The main purpose is to stop homosexual
marriages. Even though under our current constitution we never had
this problem before, we seem to think the constitution is at fault and
must be amended. I guess the founders weren't thinking when they
put it together, or so it would seem from this approach. Pure
foolishness. We didn't need it then and we don't now.
The constitution is sound. So, what is the problem?
Activist judges are undeniably a major problem. How should we fix
them? If you listen to our 'Christian leaders' we fix them by
changing the constitution (or at least limit their damage). In
reality, they forget their mandate to 'go and make disciples' and 'the
battle is the Lord's' and 'He will be with us'. Instead of
focusing on the sinful practice of those standing for homosexual
marriage, they focus on our primary document with the power to overthrow
those same judges who deserve immediate removal.
The Republicans have sold us out, again. They could have
brought this up years ago but didn't. How many years has Bush been
president and with Republican majorities in both houses? They
really don't care. Their goal is to bring it up now to 'energize
their base' since we have been ignored, their poll numbers have slipped
and they need us to save their majorities in congress. They don't
care for the battle. They use us.
If they really cared, instead of ruining the constitution, they would
be using it to impeach or to reel in the judges. They don't care.
Why did I say "ruining"? Because they are attempting to ruin the
constitution, but thank God (literally) for the 'evil' Democrats who
will probably not allow the 2/3 majority in the Senate for it to go to
the states for ratification.
Let us look at the Amendment. Especially note the red letters
below.
Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the
United States relating to marriage. (Reported in Senate)
Calendar No. 435109th CONGRESS
2d SessionS. J. RES. 1
Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the
United States relating to marriage.
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
January 24, 2005
Mr. ALLARD (for himself, Mr. INHOFE, Mr. LOTT, Mr. ENZI,
Mr. DEMINT, Mr. SANTORUM, Mr. CRAPO, Mr. SESSIONS, Mr.
VITTER, Mr. THUNE, Mr. ALEXANDER, Mr. FRIST, Mr. TALENT, Mr.
BURR, Mrs. HUTCHISON, Mr. KYL, Mrs. DOLE, Mr. MARTINEZ, Mr.
ISAKSON, Mr. MCCONNELL, Mr. HATCH, Mr. ROBERTS, Mr. CORNYN,
Mr. STEVENS, Mr. COBURN, Mr. COCHRAN, Mr. SHELBY, Mr. ALLEN,
Mr. BROWNBACK, and Mr. DEWINE) introduced the following
joint resolution; which was read twice and referred to the
Committee on the Judiciary
May 18, 2006
Reported by Mr. SPECTER, without amendment
JOINT RESOLUTION
Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the
United States relating to marriage.
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives
of the United States of America in Congress assembled
(two-thirds of each House concurring therein), That
the following article is proposed as an amendment to the
Constitution of the United States, which shall be valid
to all intents and purposes as part of the Constitution
when ratified by the legislatures of three-fourths of
the several States:
`Article--
`SECTION 1. This article may be cited as the `Marriage
Protection Amendment'.`SECTION 2. Marriage in the
United States shall consist only of the union of a man
and a woman. Neither this
Constitution, nor the constitution of any State, shall
be construed to require that marriage or the legal
incidents thereof be conferred upon any union other than
the union of a man and a woman.'.
Calendar No. 435 http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?c109:2:./temp/%7Ec109ztc1Gj:: |
Let us look at what our esteemed president said in his wonderful
address for this Amendment on
June 5, 2006.
| President Bush: ..."The
constitutional amendment that the Senate will consider this
week would fully protect marriage from being redefined.
It
will leave state legislatures free to make their own choices
in defining legal arrangements other than marriage.
A
constitutional amendment is the most democratic process by
which our country can resolve this issue. In their wisdom,
our founders set a high bar for amending the Constitution.
An amendment must be approved by two-thirds of the House and
the Senate, and then ratified by three-fourths of the 50
state legislatures.
This process
guarantees that
every
state legislature and every community in our nation will
have a voice and a say in deciding this issue."
(Applause.) ...
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/06/20060605-2.html |
Besides Rev. Shelton, who understands how wrong this is? This
becomes, inadvertently or cognizantly, a back door constitutionalization
establishing homosexual unions. This makes the civil unions
part of our constitution. The one legal document that is not
broken and is our only hope for reforming our government!!!!
Yet all these folks begging for our money and our phone calls to
supposedly fight for God are the reason this is happening!!! Even
Bush and the rest of the Republicans aren't wanting this amendment.
They are pandering to folks who claim to deliver our votes to them, as
they have in the past. They believe they are doing God's work yet
in reality, regrettably, they are doing Satan's work, through
Washingtonian twisted thinking.
Don't we know that it isn't marriage that God abhors. Marriage
is simply a name. God abhors homosexual behavior. It is
lukewarm Christians that anger Him. We are pleading loudly that
God will strike our nation with his unbearable judgment, especially
because His people have left Him and His directions.
May He wake us up and we plead repentance.
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