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Jody Brown, Agape Press
June 21, 2005

According to the California-based group Campaign for Children and Families (CCF), a state lawmaker's plan to introduce a pro-homosexual amendment to a bill already passed by the State Assembly could very well backfire. Democratic Assemblyman Mark Leno of San Francisco has stated he intends to "gut and amend" a bill passed earlier by the Assembly and insert homosexual "marriage" licenses into the legislation. Leno's move comes just two weeks after his bill (AB 19), which sought similar rights for homosexuals, was defeated on the Assembly floor. Randy Thomasson, executive director of CCF, has a warning for Leno regarding this latest move: be careful what you wish for. "The Democrat politicians' addiction to homosexual 'marriage' guarantees that a constitutional marriage amendment protecting marriage rights for a man and a woman will qualify and pass on next year's ballot," Thomasson says, "[and their] obsession with destroying the essence of marriage will keep this issue front and center for California voters." The CCF leader notes that in late July a statewide marriage protection movement called VoteYesMarriage.com will begin circulating petitions in support of the Voters' Right to Protect Marriage Initiative. He contends Leno is "annoying and aggravating average Californians" -- and that voters across the state will "respond in force" to the lawmaker's latest action by signing those petitions to place the marriage protection initiative on the 2006 ballot.