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LDS Actions Against Marriage Equality

Defending Whose Marriage? Affirmation Responds to the Religious Coalition for Marriage Petition

Alyson Bolles, Olin Thomas, and James Morris

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