New Conservative Website Launched AGAINST Marriage Amendment
Not All Conservatives Support Marriage Amendment. Citizen Outreach Says Leave the Matter to the States.
WASHINGTON, DC (PRWEB) December 18, 2003
Citizen Outreach, a non-profit organization in Washington, D. C., which supports limited-government public policies, announced a new website today focusing on opposition to the proposed Federal Marriage Amendment (FMA). The new website can be accessed at www. lawfullywedded. com.
“The fact is, you don’t have to support gay marriage in order to oppose this effort to tinker with our Constitution and create a one-size-fits-all national policy of prohibiting it,” said Chuck Muth, president of Citizen Outreach. “Contrary to popular opinion, not all conservatives support this idea of using our founding document for social engineering. That was tried once during Prohibition, and we all know how that turned out.”
The website includes links to both the House and Senate versions of the Federal Marriage Amendment as well as the recent Massachusetts court opinion legalizing “gay marriages.” There are also links to recent news stories on the issue, conservative opinion columns opposing the amendment, an FAQ page, an online opinion poll and multiple quotes from conservative leaders and conservative activists who oppose the FMA.
“Not only do we think this is bad policy, we think pursuing this amendment is bad politics,” said Muth. “It’s going to fracture the conservative movement, pitting traditional Goldwater conservatives against social conservatives. Frankly, we have a lot bigger fish to fry. Conservatives who really want to do something with the Constitution might instead work to repeal the 16th Amendment which established the income tax. That amendment, not to mention heterosexual divorce and unwed motherhood, have done far more damage to the American family than gay marriage ever could.”
Muth concluded saying marriage is and should continue to be a state issue. “Conservatives are supposed to believe in local control over matters such as this. Conservatives who want to be consistent in their beliefs need to actively oppose efforts to nationalize marriage the way Hillary Clinton tried to nationalize health care.”
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