Stating that “you can’t win the game if you don’t have a ball on the field”, Indiana Representative Eric Turner (R/Marion)
announced to the crowd of pro-family supporters that he and Representative David Cheatham (D/North Vernon)
had introduced HJR 3, the marriage amendment, late on opening day of the Indiana General Assembly’s “special session” on June 11.
Representative Cheatham suggested by phone that, “we can’t wait while traditional values are being taken away from us in other states and cities…we’ve got to keep standing for our beliefs”.
The language of Indiana’s Marriage Amendment is identical to Marriage Amendments passed in our neighboring states Wisconsin and Kentucky. Indiana’s Marriage Amendment would protect marriage in Indiana from activist judges like those in Massachusetts, California and other states around the country where homosexual “marriage” or “civil unions” have been judicially mandated.
Although Roe v. Wade and subsequent Supreme Court rulings have bullied the States into defending abortion, there are things that the Indiana State Legislature can do to help save the lives of the unborn. SB 89 and SB 90 are two such bills.
This bill (and similar legislation nationwide) is the brain-child of activists hoping to promote homosexuality, bisexuality and gender identity disorder (the clinical definition for people who are unhappy with the gender they were born with). It would promote unequal justice under the law by creating two classes of victims. Under this legislation, if someone would assault my grandmother because of her political beliefs (for example) the perpetrator would not be punished as harshly as if he had committed the same crime against someone because he thought the victim was homosexual.
Homosexuality, Bisexuality and Gender Identity Disorder Promotion (HB 1250)
This bill would force numerous industries, institutions and organizations to abandon their moral opposition to homosexuality or face penalties by the state. It would force churches to rent their church buildings out for homosexual weddings. It would also force churches who rent out apartments as a service to the community, to rent to homosexual couples, regardless of the church’s opposition to homosexuality and cohabitation.
