California High Court Decision Striking Down Marriage Underscores Need for Congress to Pass AFM's Marriage Protection Amendment

Marriage Protection Amendment Drafted by AFM is Essential to Protect Views of the Vast Majority of Americans

WASHINGTON -- The Alliance for Marriage Foundation urged the people of California to constitutionally protect marriage in their state, while calling upon Congress to pass AFM's federal Marriage Protection Amendment in the aftermath of a California Supreme Court decision striking down marriage.

"In the most populous state in the Union, radical activists have convinced judges to ignore the will of the people and to follow the destructive lead of the Massachusetts courts in striking down the common sense definition of marriage," said Matt Daniels, president and founder of the Alliance for Marriage Foundation. "California is now ground-zero in the Battle to Protect Marriage, and the fight in California must now be joined in the Congress."

Recently, California voters delivered over 1.1 million signatures to protect marriage with a constitutional amendment. The signatures are being verified by county election officials for the constitutional amendment to be approved for the November 2008 ballot.

"The future of marriage in California should be determined among the 36 million residents of the State of California -- not by the personal, closed-door deliberation of seven judges," said Rev. Sam Rodriguez, Jr., an Advisory Board Member of the Alliance for Marriage Foundation. "For several decades, America has been wandering in a wilderness of social problems caused by family disintegration. Tragically, as bad as our current situation may be, today's decision by the Court can only make the situation dramatically worse."

"Given the continuous attacks upon marriage in courts across the country, AFM's Marriage Protection Amendment is clearly the only hope for the American people to determine the future of marriage under our laws," Daniels added.

"Americans want our laws to send a positive message to children about marriage, family and their future," said Daniels.

The Alliance for Marriage is a non-partisan, multicultural coalition whose Board of Advisors includes Rev. Walter Fauntroy -- the former DC Delegate who organized the March on Washington for Martin Luther King Jr. -- as well as other civil rights and religious leaders, and national legal experts.

Comments

[Marriage Defender]

4 to 3, same vote as Massachusetts but not 1 mention of a controversial decision or radical court decision by our mainstream Obamanation media. Did they ask the candidates what their opinion of the decision?

We know Gov. Arnoldddd won't get conservative support next time around, he has given the job to his wife Maria.

[Don Castella]

The California court has betrayed the people of California and this nation. This is an egregious usurpation of the clearly stated will of California voters. We must not allow this travesty to stand. There is no constitutional ground for the decision to deny the people's will.

I am curious why it took the majority so many pages to describe the twisted logic (or lack thereof) behind their decision by fiat.

The good news is that the voters of California will likely rise up like an angry bear in November and render this activist decision moot by adopting a Defense of Marriage Amendment to the California Constitution. That should rightly relegate this ridiculous decision and the judges who supported it to the dustheap of history where they so justly belong.