Dear Marriage Supporter,
At the Fox News presidential debate in Ames, Iowa on Thursday, Byron York of the Washington Examiner asked five of the candidates (including three of the four signers of NOM's marriage pledge!) about their views on same-sex marriage, civil unions and a federal marriage amendment.
In case you missed the debate, we've put together a short 5-minute montage of each of the candidate responses. Click here to watch.
Later today, Iowa voters will vote for their favorite candidate at the Ames Straw Poll, the first real test of the candidates' momentum and organizational support in this young 2012 presidential campaign. As our Values Voter Bus pulled into Ames last evening, we wrapped up a 5-day, 23-city tour of the State of Iowa with FRC Action and the Susan B. Anthony List, energizing social conservatives and reminding all of us to get involved in support of pro-marriage candidates.
One of the key purposes of the bus tour has been to focus attention on marriage and life issues early in this presidential campaign. Iowa voters—and especially Iowa Republicans—are overwhelmingly committed to defending marriage and life, even to the point last fall of firing three justices who forced same-sex marriage on the state. Who better to test the Republican presidential candidates on marriage?
We'll see later today who passes this first test of the 2012 campaign!
Faithfully,
Brian S. Brown
President
National Organization for Marriage
11 Comments
In 1856, the Republican Party showed its commitment to marriage by opposing the expansion of polygamy into the territories, calling it a relic of barbarism.
Polygamy is still a valid cultural/historical variant of marriage,unlike anything involving only persons of one sex.
Question
Who Murders The Unborn
Answer
Not Homosexuals
And Marriage is an issue???
bachman will never win
What about first cousin marriage which is legal in 22 states? Here in NH it is illegal to marry your first cousin but it is legal in all of the other NE states. First cousin marriage is legal in Florida. What happens if two cousins marry in Florida and move to Texas where it is illegal? Is their marriage still legal? If Texas recognizes 1st cousin marriages from Florida why can't they recognize gay marriages from MA? Just curious. Maybe all types of marriage unlawful in any state should also be added to Romney's proposed bill.
Question:
Who can't engender children, but would like to?
We don't have to run a test on some couples.
Kinship is a detail for marriage eligibility,while the partners being of opposite sexes is the foundation of the whole concept.Egyptian pharaohs married their sisters...but NOT their brothers!!
So let me get this right Louise E, you support polygamy, you support people marrying their brothers and sisters providing they are of opposite sex, you support surrogacy according to your response to a previous article providing it is not for same sex couples, you support abortion and you are not even offended by the thought of babies being sold providing it is only to opposite sex couples but you do NOT support gay relationships under any circumstances?
Badger,I'm not saying those things are good,but that same-sex sexual relationships are automatically worse.
Which ones of those things do you say should be legal (other than SSM) or left to an individual's free choice?
Who is man that he can change what god has ordain. He has nothing in the bible about it ok for to people of the sam sex can get marriage.
Besides it is very unsanitary, and ungodly.