3 States & 50 Days to Save Marriage

Preserve & Protect Marriage

In November, voters in three states (Arizona, California and Florida) will have the opportunity to amend their state constitutions to reaffirm that marriage is the union of one man and one woman. Liberty Counsel is supporting efforts to pass the amendments in these states.

In Arizona and California, a constitutional amendment only needs 50% support in order to pass. However in Florida, any constitutional amendment must be passed by 60% of the electorate.

A. California’s Proposition 8: The Marriage Protection Amendment

Places into the California Constitution the same language that voters already passed by 61% of the vote in 2000. This is necessary to overturn an outrageous California Supreme Court decision that overturned Proposition 22.

The entire text of Proposition 8 is as follows:

"Only marriage between a man and a woman is valid and recognized in California."

www.ProtectMarriage.com

B. Florida’s Amendment 2: The Marriage Protection Amendment

Current polling shows that the Florida Marriage Protection Amendment is favored by approximately 55% of Floridians. There is much work to be done there.

http://www.yes2marriage.org/

C. Arizona’ Proposition 102: The Marriage Protection Amendment

Like the amendments on the ballot of the other two states a “YES” vote prevents judges and politicians from redefining marriage and leaves marriage’s essential meaning in the hands of the people of Arizona.

Arizona is the only state whose voters have rejected a same-sex marriage ban. The 2006 rejection of Proposition 107 was widely attributed to provisions interpreted to prohibit government recognition of domestic partnerships and civil unions.

http://www.yesformarriage.com/

Some of the information provided here was gleaned from an email received from Liberty Counsel.

It is critical that all three amendments pass, especially the one in California because it has the greatest potential negative impact to spread and infect other states with the the toxic notion that marriage is not the exclusive right and privilege of the one-man, one-woman relationship.