SAVEAMERICA.COM NEWS RELEASE
April 3, 2009 -- For Immediate Release
Iowa Voters Must Demand That Iowa Legislature Place Rock-Solid Marriage Amendment on Ballot to Override Judges’ Homosexual “Marriages”
Sacramento, California -- Veteran man-woman marriage advocate Randy Thomasson, President of SaveAmerica.com and SaveCalifornia.com, issued the following statement in response to the Iowa Supreme Court inventing homosexual “marriages”:
“This terrible ruling by activist judges should not change the expected outcome of the California Supreme Court, where a majority of the justices seem prepared to rule that the only marriages that could be entered into after Prop. 8 passed are marriages ‘between a man and a woman.’”
“Unlike California, where the voters have decisively overridden the judges, Iowa voters have not yet amended their state constitution to reserve marriage rights for one man and one woman. Doing so would require voters to lobby the Iowa Legislature to pass a marriage amendment in two consecutive sessions before voters can finally approve it on the ballot.”
“But I’m offering some friendly advice: Iowans should write a rock-solid marriage amendment, one that is much stronger than amendments in California, Oregon and Washington, which still allowed counterfeit marriages and immoral policies forcing insurance plans and private businesses to subsidize pseudo-marriages. Iowans should also take care to prevent the civil institution of marriage from being someday abolished, and must biologically define a man and a woman to ensure that the distinct, God-given genders of a husband and wife cannot be perverted. Now is the time for courage and foresight, not cowardice or ignorance.”
IOWA STATE CONSTITUTION, ARTICLE X, AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITUTION
Any amendment or amendments to this constitution may be proposed in either house of the general assembly; and if the same shall be agreed to by a majority of the members elected to each of the two houses, such proposed amendment shall be entered on their journals, with the yeas and nays taken thereon, and referred to the legislature to be chosen at the next general election, and shall be published, as provided by law, for three months previous to the time of making such choice; and if, in the general assembly so next chosen as aforesaid, such proposed amendment or amendments shall be agreed to, by a majority of all the members elected to each house, then it shall be the duty of the general assembly to submit such proposed amendment or amendments to the people, in such manner, and at such time as the general assembly shall provide; and if the people shall approve and ratify such amendment or amendments, by a majority of the electors qualified to vote for members of the general assembly, voting thereon, such amendment or amendments shall become a part of the constitution of this state.
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