Focus on the Family Chairman James C. Dobson, Ph.D., issued the following statement Tuesday after the House of Representatives failed to approve the Marriage Protection Amendment:
"Once again, the men and women representing their constituents in Washington have betrayed those who put them in power. Like the Senate did before them, the House has refused to protect the institution of marriage from activist judges bent on redefining it.
"Americans have made it clear where they stand on the traditional family, which has been the bedrock of civilization for 5,000 years. Twenty states, by overwhelming margins, have passed constitutional amendments defining marriage solely as the union of one man and one woman. That represents tens of millions of voters whose beliefs and desires have been disregarded by members of Congress.
"We are seeing increasing signs that many of those voters are fed up with Washington. We certainly intend to tell them how their senators and congressmen voted on the Marriage Protection Amendment. We believe many of them will 'remember in November.'"