The Marriage Amendment’s Importance in the Republican House Majority Leader’s Race
There is good news on the horizon for Marriage Amendment supporters. NRO’s Steve Spuriell revealed that Republican Study Committee (”RSC”) Chairman Mike Pence said that the top three areas of focus among the conservative Republicans who are members of the RSC are “budget, marriage, and ethics.” Further, each candidate for Majority Leader (Blunt, Boehner, and Shadegg) were questioned on “legislative strategy” and “timing” of the Marriage Amendment. Congressman Pence described the push for a Marriage Amendment as “standing up for the sanctity of marriage.”
This is great news for true conservative (economic and social) Republicans. I am very pleased with Congressman Pence’s position on the importance of marriage–placing it ahead of ethics, which is a striking and poignant statement, given the political buzz regarding Abramoff and the polished guffaw Democrats have been nervously confiding to the press about Republican corruption. The vast majority of Americans want to preserve and protect marriage, as evinced by the state majorities who have voted to constitutionalize the definition of marriage as the union of one man and one woman.
Hopefully, whomever is selected to fill the Majority Leader’s seat, that Republican will be dedicated to putting the Marriage Amendment on the table and then advocating for its passage. Time is of the essence in preventing state and federal courts from usurping the legislature’s constitutional law-making power to force gay marriage on an unwilling American populace.