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PA Family Institute: Lawsuit Shows Need for Constitutional Marriage Amendment

 

From a recent action alert by the Pennsylvania Family Institute:

Attorneys for a lesbian woman who was “married” to her partner in Canada have petitioned the court to declare Pennsylvania’s marriage law to be unconstitutional. That means a single judge could, by his decision, rewrite the definition of marriage in the state to allow same-sex marriage. It was a case not unlike this one that led the high court in Iowa to legalize same-sex marriage there in 2009.

The only way to protect marriage for generations to come in Pennsylvania is a Marriage Protection Amendment...

... For the past five years, the state has considered legislation giving you the chance to vote on a marriage protection amendment, but each year the legislation has been prevented from moving forward. With this past year’s election, however, conservatives won a majority in both the state House and Senate, paving the way for the passage of marriage protection legislation in 2011.

3 Comments

  1. Barb Chamberlan
    Posted November 2, 2011 at 7:18 pm | Permalink

    Hopefully this court case will be enough to kick the PA legislature into gear. The time is now.

  2. Posted November 2, 2011 at 10:09 pm | Permalink

    Indeed.

  3. John Noe
    Posted November 4, 2011 at 8:14 pm | Permalink

    If you observe carefully this PA couple is attempting to do in PA what was done in MA and CT.