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Advocate of Marriage Amendment: Only Way to Stop Activist Judges Wes Vernon, NewsMax.comWASHINGTON – The polls showing public support for gay marriage in Massachusetts are wrong, says a leading advocate of protecting traditional marriage. “Those polls [by the Boston Globe-WBZ and the Boston Sunday Herald] are erroneous,” declared Matt Daniels, president of Alliance for Marriage (AFM). “All of the polls that I know of — reputable polls, both nationally and in Massachusetts — have approximately 70 percent of the American people believing that marriage is a man and a woman,” he said. The left-wing Globe, in particular, according to Daniels, has been “engaged in a series of polls which have been designed to try to pave the way for, and provide cover for, the court to issue” the decision handed down by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. Many neutral experts regard the Globe's polls as “extremely biased,” the AFM leader told NewsMax.com. AFM says a constiutional Amendment is the only way to protect marriage as we know it. That is no small hurdle. It requires a two-thirds vote of both houses of Congress and three-fourths of the state legislatures. The idea has the support of House Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., who adds that Congress will not move until the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) now on the books is tested in the courts. President Bush and most (though not all) Democrat candidates for president agree that marriage is in fact a union between a man and a woman. The issue is bipartisan. AFM’s coalition includes a lot of Democrats as well as Republicans. Daniels says this is yet another instance where those who want to change the culture of this country can’t get their way at the ballot box, so they are resorting to unelected judges. “It does give cover to elected officials of all stripes and descriptions to hide from public accountability,” the AFM leader said. Only a constitutional Amendment defining marriage as a union between a man and a woman will “allow the American people to have the final say.” Expect lawsuits in the near future trying to force the Massachusetts court's decision on the entire nation, with you as a voter having nothing to say about it. More than 100 House members have signed on to a traditional-marriage amendment the AFM coalition drafted. It has the support of Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist. This project has been under way for 3 years, anticipating what has now happened. AFM’s coalition includes “two of the largest black denominations in the United States, the largest association of Hispanic churches in the U.S. and Puerto Rico.” Major Jewish and Muslim groups, three Roman Catholic cardinals, nine archbishops and 40 bishops have signed on. Moreover, AFM succeeded in helping to craft a recent favorable statement adopted by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. Daniels, himself a lawyer, says advocates of same-sex marriage planned “to get a state court somewhere to do an end run around public opinion and the democratic process and strike down marriage.” And finally, this warning from the coalition: “This is the last chance the American people are going to get. There is no other vehicle. There is no other way, no referendum, and no law can stop what’s coming. Only the painfully difficult route of a constitutional Amendment” will enable Americans the right to define marriage for their children and grandchildren. The battle is just beginning.
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