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WORLD CONGRESS
OF FAMILIES DISAPPOINTED BY SENATE VOTE ON MARRIAGE AMENDMENT
World Congress of Families organizer Dr. Allan Carlson expressed
“extreme disappointment” over the Senate’s failure to approve the
Marriage Protection Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. An attempt
to end a filibuster failed. Only 49 Senators supported the
amendment, far short of the two-thirds needed to approve a
Constitutional amendment.
“The Senate has once again evaded its responsibility to defend the
institution of marriage,” Carlson commented. “Opponents asked why
supporters were wasting the Senate’s time with a ‘politically
motivated’ measure, with war raging in Iraq and the price of oil at
over $3.00 a gallon – as if preserving traditional marriage and the
natural family was something of little consequence.”
Carlson reminds us that the United Nations Universal Declaration of
Human Rights (adopted in 1948) recognizes the right of “men and
women” – and men and women alone -- “to marry and to found a
family.”
The
Declaration states, “The family is the natural and fundamental group
unit of society and entitled to protection by society and the
State.”
Carlson: “This suggests that the United States government has an
absolute duty to keep the courts from defining marriage out of
existence, as the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court did three
years ago, when it forced gay marriage on the state.”
Carlson noted that, in March, a commission established by the
President of the French National Assembly recommended against
extending marriage to same-sex couples in France. Its report
declared that the interests of children are paramount here, that
“marriage is not merely the contractual recognition of the love
between a couple; it is a framework that implies rights and duties,
and is designed to provide for the care and harmonious development
of the child.”
Still, Carlson warned that European Union bureaucrats are trying to
effect the same radical change sought by some judges here. In May,
the EU ordered member states to facilitate gay marriages contracted
in other EU countries.
Protecting marriage from the assault of social engineers – in the
bureaucracy or on the bench – will be high on the agenda of World
Congress of Families IV, when it convenes in Warsaw, Poland May
11-13, 2006.
For
more information on the World Congress of Families, go to
www.worldcongress.org.
To schedule an interview with Dr. Carlson, call Larry Jacobs at
815-964-5819 or, mobile, 513-515-3685. |