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 Same-sex Unions
LDS Actions Against Marriage Equality
Defending Whose Marriage? Affirmation Responds to the Religious Coalition for Marriage Petition
Alyson Bolles, Olin Thomas, and James Morris
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25 April 2006
Affirmation: Gay and Lesbian Mormons believes that the United States Constitution should remain a testament to civil liberty and equality for all people, and that discrimination has no place in it. Encouraging committed relationships, not fighting against them, will bring about a stronger and more just society. Understanding and love have never been achieved by isolating one group of citizens for attack.
It is regrettable to see the signature of LDS Apostle Russell M. Nelson on a recent petition that seeks to enshrine discrimination in the Constitution. The proposed amendment will foster potentially life-threatening anti-gay sentiments in our society, while weakening and preventing legal protections for devoted gay and lesbian couples. This amendment threatens efforts to make safe havens of all homes, and injects unnecessary pain and fear into the lives of children and extended families.
The amendment will protect nothing, will preserve no one's marriage, and will neither maintain nor strengthen any family. No singular religious interpretation should ever be legislated as the law of the land.
Affirmation asks those who believe in equal treatment for all citizens to contact their senators. Urge them to reject this attempt to write discrimination into the founding document of the United States and to stand firm against discrimination in any form.
Olin Thomas, Alyson Bolles, and James Morris
Executive Committee
Affirmation: Gay and Lesbian Mormons
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