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Concerned Women for America Announces Support for the Institution of Marriage Amendment 2/5/2004 Washington, D.C. – Concerned Women for America (CWA) announced its support for an amendment to the U.S. Constitution that will protect marriage from redefinition by courts or legislatures.
The Institution of Marriage Amendment (IMA) says:
“Marriage in the United States shall consist only of the union of a man and a woman. Neither the United States nor any State shall recognize or grant to any unmarried person the legal rights or status of a spouse.”
CWA’s president Sandy Rios called on Congress to work for passage of this amendment and on the White House to lend its active support to that effort.
“We have been working for months,” Rios explained, “with legal scholars, elected officials and our colleagues in other organizations to develop amendment language that protects the central social institution of marriage. This is the only amendment proposal that addresses both of the twin threats to marriage: capricious judicial decrees such as we have seen in Vermont and Massachusetts and legislative vandalism, as in California and New Jersey, whereby politicians carve up the legal attributes of marriage and hand them out to special interest groups by another name, i.e. civil unions or domestic partnerships.
“Justice William O. Douglas long ago noted that the institution of marriage is older than any of our political institutions. Protecting that sacred institution from reckless politicians and from destructive special interests is a basic act of self-defense for any society.”
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