As goes New Jersey…
The very activist push has been not only on, but intensifying over the past year or so to recognize same-sex civil unions as “marriage” by the state….in many states…with the goal of establishing it as the law of the land.
What’s happening in New Jersey is a case in point. Same-sex marriage proponents are on a stealth campaign hurry through their legislation.
Brian Brown, executive director of the National Organization for Marriage, said there’s a strong push for lawmakers to take on this controversial issue before the 2008 session, because the newly elected Legislature may be more inclined to defend the institution.
This is happening in a lot of places, and succeeds when people aren’t paying attention.
Len Deo, president of the New Jersey Family Policy Council, said it’s vital that people get involved in this fight.
“There is a likelihood that the bill will pass, especially if there’s no outcry from those people that do support marriage as being the union of one man and one woman only,” he said. “As long as the voice of the people is heard by the legislators, I think that will help in hopefully stopping this legislation from moving forward.”
Since New Jersey does not have any residency laws that would restrict the exportation of “same-sex marriage,” the passage of any of the bills would have a devastating impact nationwide.
“Couples could come here from outside the state, get married, go back to their states and then challenge their state legislatures and their state laws on the same-sex marriage issue,” Deo said. “Therefore people have the right to call in, whether they live in Oklahoma or Pennsylvania or any other state.”
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Brown said the situation is not hopeless.
“We’re nowhere near the point of no return on this,” he said, “but it’s going to require people standing up and making their voices heard.”
This is the time of the grassroots. This week, the Republican presidential candidates will face the YouTube debates that the Democrats already did, with questions coming from people who have submitted them online, covering a rather wildly diverse swath of the population.
People frequently ask what they can do about the decline of morals and traditional values in the culture. You can speak up in more ways than ever before, and politicians are listening. Maybe the media aren’t, but they will.