No Anti-Gay Amendment to Constitution

Urge your representatives in Washington to oppose any language amending the U.S. Constitution to define marriage as strictly between a man and a woman, which would as well invalidate all the protections that many families currently enjoy.

Amending the Constitution is an extreme act. The proposed amendment before Congress would deny the right to marry to gay and lesbian couples and also obliterate the family rights that many same-sex couples- and unmarried heterosexual couples -- and their families now have. Revising the Constitution to incorporate discrimination against anyone in America is wrong and should be rejected.

These proposed, so-called 'reforms' are unnecessary and wrong. Even though the country has periodically struggled with the question of marriage -- the last law prohibiting people of different races from marrying was overturned only 35 years ago-we have never taken the step of amending the Constitution to define marriage. Now is not the time to begin to use the Constitution as a tool for discrimination. Congress certainly has more important issues to consider.

Attempts to amend the Constitution defining marriage as between a man and a woman rejects American traditions of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. It would reverse the constitutional tradition of protecting individual freedoms. None of our constitutional amendments restrict individual freedoms. In fact, the amendments to the Constitution have been the source of most of the Constitution's protections for individual liberty rights. The proposed amendment, by contrast, would deny all protection for the most personal decisions made by millions of people in committed long-term relationships.

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