THE FACTS

It is a known fact that our current population in the U.S. consists of 1% to 3% homosexuals at most, not 10%. Unquestionably the vast majority of people have accepted marriage as between one man and one woman for thousands of years. However, activists who are trying to change and redefine marriage are demanding the majority of the population change their values and beliefs to please the minority.

Furthermore, to impose this law on our nation would effect many areas:

• Schools would be required to teach this as an alternative lifestyle weather parents agree or not. Parents and children's views are not as important as homosexual marriage.

• Corporations would be required to extend the same benefits as a spouse.

• Laws would eventually be changed allowing adoption of children by homosexual couples. Currently there is no evidence that homosexuals could have any positive effects on children, however studies do show that a father and mother influence children dramatically.
  

  
  Love is no reason to allow same sex-marriage. What about all the other groups that love each other. This would open up marriage between children and adults, relatives involved in incest, even 2 or 3 or 4 people.

  
  Most important of all, homosexual acts hurt and kill people. The worst thing we can do from a public policy perspective is to encourage behavior that destroys our citizens. Undoubtedly, common sense tells us that a nation will not survive very long if it encourages its people to engage in harmful behavior. It would only encourage more risky behavior.

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  MAIN REASONS TO OPPOSE SAME-SEX MARRIAGE

  • Domino effect on current laws involving corporate insurance rates, adoption, sex education in public schools etc.;
  • Homosexuals are free to hold their own ceremonies, but legalization forces public acceptance and creates a situation where anyone disagreeing with the policy would be denounced as a "bigot";
  • Less than 5% of gays have ever had a relationship that lasted 3 years or more;
  • Marriage is more then a means to financial benefits;
  • Homosexual couples are not the same as husband and wife, to say they are is to claim that men and women are the same, with no appreciable differences, which is extreme;
  • Polls show the majority of people in America (70%) oppose;
  • Reduces marriage to a mere exchange of lovely sentiments;
  • Like other citizens, homosexuals can draft any type of will that they want and leave their property to anyone they want;
  • Homosexual activists desperately need at least one state to permit same sex couples to marry so they could challenge the federal Defense of Marriage Act.

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  VERMONT FIRST STATE WITH CIVIL UNION LAW: Legislatures go against the will of the people and pass "Civil Union" law!

  In December 1999, the state Supreme Court ordered the legislature to extend full marital benefits to same-sex couples, whether or not lawmakers termed it "marriage." Four months later, Vermont became the first state in the nation to approve so-called "civil unions" for homosexuals, with all the benefits of marriage.

  • WHAT WENT WRONG IN VERMONT?
  • ARE ANY LEGISLATURE SEATS IN DANGER?
  • WILL THIS LAW BE USED TO CHALLENGE TRADITIONAL MARRIAGE LAWS IN OTHER STATES?
  • WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE?
  • WHAT CAN CONSERVATIVES DO TO PROMOTE AND PROTECT MARRIAGE FROM HERE?

  Click here for the answers.
  

  ^NEWVermont Governor may get the boot
  |Vermont Exporting Gay Unions |
  |Help Save Vermont Page |
  Vermonters for Civil Unions page (See what the Gay community is up to)
  Articles pertaining to Civil Unions.
  HOW HOMOSEXUAL 'CIVIL UNIONS' HARM MARRIAGE
  Backlash Over Vt. Civil Unions Law, the people of vermont are upset. (Take Back Vermont)
  Vermonters Starting to Clean House of Pro-Civil Union Republicans; Are Court Justices Next?

  

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  Last updated 8/2/00

  STATES(33) CURRENTLY BANNING SAME SEX MARRAIAGE:

  Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Arizona, California, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Main, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Montanta, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah, Virgina, West Virginia, Washington.

  STATES(8) NOT CURRENTLY BANNING SAME SEX MARRIAGES AND NO BILLS IN PROCESS:

  Connecticut, Maryland, Nebraska - Has successfully gathered enough signatures necessary to put the issue on the November 2000 ballot.
  New Hampshire, Oregon, Rhode Island, Texas, Wyoming.
  If you live in one of the above states, please contact your staterepresentative and senator and ask them to enact a "Defense of Marriage Act."

  STATES(8) WITH BILLS("Defense of Marriage Act") IN PROCESS
  

  Massachusetts – House No. 472, Missouri – HB 1187; SB 744
  Nevada – Has successfully gathered enough signatures necessary to put the issue on the November 2000 ballot. Contact the Coalition for the Protection of Marriage in Nevada at (702)307-6175 for more information.
  New Jersey – A803; S57, New Mexico – SB 189; SJR 18, New York – S 5228, Ohio – SB 240; HB 547, Wisconsin – AB 781
  If you live in one of the above states, please contact your state representative and senator and ask them to support the indicated legislation.

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  REASONS TO OPPOSE SAMESEX MARRIAGE AND DENOMINATIONS THAT SUPORT SAMESEX MARRIAGE
  • Homosexual acts hurt and kill people. The worst thing we can do from a public policy perspective is to encourage behavior that destroys our citizens.
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  • Snowball effect of current laws on insurance rates, adoption, sex education in public schools etc.
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  • Homosexuals are free to hold their own ceremonies, but when they bring the law into it, they force everyone into it and anyone disagreeing with the policy would be denounced as a "bigot."
    
    
  • Homosexual couples are not the same as a husband and wife. To say they are is to claim that men and women are the same, with no appreciable differences, which is crazy.

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    Pamela Metherell from Los Ranchos, California Prebyterian Church said: "Our traditional view of marriage is being threatened by the allowance of same-sex unions in the Church and society. we live in times of moral and ethical confusion and our church must speak now with a voice of clarity on these matters, especially to our children." from Presbyterian Layman July/Aug 2000.

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    DENOMINATIONS THAT HAVE HELD CEREMONIES AND ENDORSE SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
    (Individual Congregations may vary)

    American Apostolic Catholic Church, American Baptist, Bretheren/Mennonite, Buddhist, California Council of Churches, Covenant of the Goddess (Wiccan), Episcopal Church, Evangelican Anglican Church in America, Evangelical Lutheran, Hawaii Council of Churches, Humanist Society of Friends, Reconciling Congregations (United Methodist), Reconstructionist Jewish, Reformed Catholic Church (USA), Reform Judaism, Methodist, Metropolitan Community Church, Presbyterian Church, Quaker (Society of Friends), Unitarian Universalist Church, United Church of Christ, Unity Fellowship Churches

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  RELIGIOUS ORGANIZATIONS CURRENTLY SUPPORTING CEREMONIES FOR SAME-SEX COUPLES

  CORNET
  Box 1021, Evanston, IL 60204 -email: Umcornet@hotmail.com

  "Covenant Relationships Network" seeks to continue the tradition of hosting worship services that celebrate same-sex "covenant relationships" in United Methodist churches. They are campaigning to change the United Methodist Church's official position on homosexuality.

  DIGNITY
  1500 Massachusetts Ave. N.W. #11, Washington, D.C. 2005 -email: dignity@aol.com

  (Catholic-based) Maintains a National Registry of Couples whose relationships have been united by Dignity clergy.

  UNITARIAN UNIVERSALISTS
  25 Beacon St., Bostion, MA 02108 -email: obgltc@uus.org

  One of the most affirming religious bodies in North America today in its celebration of gay and lesbian people. Maintains an office for Lesbian and Gay Concerns at its headquarters in Boston

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  FURTHER READING
  ^NEWIS IT NONE OF OUR BUSINESS?
  BUT ISN'T IT FAIR? (Is it unfair to say homosexuals can't marry?)
  FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS ABOUT SAME SEX "MARRIAGE"
  DEFENSE OF MARRIAGE ACTION (DOMA)
  THE DECEIT OF GAY MARRIAGE

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  This page is to be used as talking points for countering the aggressive homosexual activists and politicians that clearly want to over ride our religious convictions and belief that homosexuality is immoral and in no way should be condoned or accepted by society as normal. PWTL calls for tolerance of all peoples view points and beliefs about homosexuality, but not necessarily having to agree or change ours. In no way does PWTL condone violence or ridicule towards homosexuals. As people of faith we must put on our armor and take a stand against the schemes of this movement. We must understand it, and be prepared so that as the day comes we are able to give an answer each and every time.