News Release: Strong Marriage Protection Amendment Introduced
May 2, 2011 // afaofpa // Homosexual Agenda, Politics
News Release
For Immediate Release: May 2, 2011
Contact: Diane Gramley 1.814.271.9078 or 1.814.437.5355
Representative Metcalfe Takes the Right Step in Protecting the Institution of Marriage
(Harrisburg) – Today State Representative Daryl Metcalfe (R-Butler) introduced a strong Marriage Protection Amendment (MPA). HB 1434 will not only protect one man one woman marriage, but will ban counterfeit marriage i.e. civil unions and state domestic partnerships. The American Family Association of Pennsylvania (AFA of PA), a statewide pro-family group, strongly supports the introduction of this amendment.
“Representative Metcalfe understands the need to do more than simply protect the word ‘marriage.’ A strong two-part amendment is what is needed to preserve the institution of marriage. In 2004 Oregon passed an amendment that simply defined marriage as between one man and one woman and four years later marriage-like benefits were extended to homosexual couples. Their amendment only preserved the word, not the institution of marriage,” stated Diane Gramley, President of the AFA of PA.
Representative Metcalfe modeled his amendment language after Florida’s which passed in 2008 with over 60 percent of the vote. The language to HB 1434, the proposed Pennsylvania MPA: “Marriage is the legal union of only one man and one woman as husband and wife and no other legal union that is treated as marriage or the substantial equivalent thereof shall be valid or recognized.” Additionally this language was unanimously upheld by the Florida Supreme Court when challenged by the ACLU.
“We are not playing a political game. This is about protecting Pennsylvania families, protecting Pennsylvania children. Social sciences show that children do best raised by their biological mother and father in an intact family. This amendment will protect those families by preserving the institution which bests serves adults and children,” Gramley continued.
Marriage does not need to be used as an experiment by those seeking to redefine families and society as a whole. Marriage is worth defending and the best way to protect it from the ongoing assault by homosexual activists is with a strongly worded amendment like HB 1434. All those who truly support protecting marriage will support this amendment.
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Topics: Daryl Metcalfe, marriage protection amendment
Hasn’t it been proven in recent news and surveys that children are happier when in a gay household? Don’t these same articles state that the family dynamic is better and that the students preform with higher grades in school?
What families are you protecting besides your own with your disgusting prejudices? No harm has come from gay and lesbian marriages, only outrage from those who oppose change and follow ‘the norm.’
Marriage is about a chance for every person to feel loved and to feel happy, to be a part of something larger than itself. Open your shut minds and embrace something new. It is the closed minds such as yourselves that steals freedom from Americans.
You must be talking about the 20-year lesbian ‘study’ of 78 children released last year which was funded by the Gill Foundation and the Lesbian Health Fund of the Gay, Lesbian Medical Association — additionally the authors of the ‘study’ are on record as activists seeking public support for homosexual parenting. At least three problems with this ‘study:’ 1.) it is based on self reporting; 2.) lesbian parents in study were hardly typical parents -overwhelming majority upper middle class Caucasian in professional or managerial roles — compared to the control group which was largely Southern minorities of a lower income bracket; 3.)the sample was far from random. Participants were recruited from gay and lesbian venues in Boston, San Francisco and Washington, DC. Other research, perhaps even more interesting, was released about the same time as the NLLFS study– research conducted by Marquardt, Glenn and Clark, titled, “My Daddy’s Name is ‘Donor’: A New Study of Young Adults Conceived Through Sperm Donation.” The authors’ conclusions included the following troubling negative factors: on average, young adults conceived through artificial insemination were more confused, felt more isolated from their families, were experiencing more psychic pain, and fared worse than a matched group of children who were conceived naturally in areas such as depression, delinquency and substance abuse. And the list goes on. In October 2010 Walter Schumm released a study which is a meta-analysis of existing work and found that children of lesbian parents identified themselves as gay 31 percent of the time; children of gay men had gay children 19 percent of the time, and children of a lesbian mother and gay father had at least one gay child 25 percent of the time.
I am very sorry to hear that in the year2011, my PA legislators are still trying to deny rights to the citizens (HB 1434 ) of this state. I believe that if the gay and lesbian citizens of this state are cintinuously denied the rights of all other taxpayers, then common decency would demand that we are given tax exempt status. Why pay our oppressors? Gay marriage has NO EFFECT on straight marriage – the “Defense” of marriage is a sham – Denial is not defense!
“Protect the institution of marriage” What a joke. The divorce and adultery rate is over 50% in PA. Dont those broken homes effect millions of children far more than a few thousand gays getting married? All these so called ‘family’ organizations dont do one blessed thing to stem the tide of divorce and adultery in their own communities. They are nothing but shams that wrap their hate and discrimination of others into innocuous sounding organizations. Throughout history it was always easier to blame another group for socities ills than take a good long look in the mirror.
Its not the states responsibility to govern who can raise a family and how as long as those people are not abusing their children, and do not have a history of abusing children. I’m sure you probably oppose legislation to ban spanking right? “Its your family”. Anyway, you probably oppose abortion, which means we need more foster homes, and in penalizing LGBT for an IMMUTABLE characteristic that they were born with, and not giving them the same benefits and privileges that straight, couples get, your agenda is essentially on a mission to put more children on the streets than there are already.
Marriage is not a right. Since when can someone marry anyone they want i.e. a brother marrying a sister? Ask Scandinavia whether same-sex marriage has any affect on traditional marriage. Since the redefinition of marriage through the legalization of same sex so-called marriage, the number of one man one woman marriages have decreased while the number of out-of-wedlock births have skyrocketed.
To Candace: Not sure where you got your stats, but such numbers would mean 50% of all the married couples you and I know would have either been involved in adultery or have ended in divorce. That’s not the case on this end, although the divorce rate is too high and the church has not addressed that issue in the strong manner it should. To help strengthen marriages the AFA of PA has partnered with Marriage Savers http://www.marriagesavers.org/sitems/index.htm
To qeqb: The issue here is about redefining what marriage and family are. Additionally, homosexuality is NOT an immutable characteristic — no one is born ‘gay.’ Even Frank Kameny, considered the father of the modern homosexual movement, agrees with that.