California gay 'marriage' bill dies
LifeSiteNews.com
June 3, 2005

(LifeSiteNews.com) – A bill seeking to legalize same-sex "marriage" in California died Thursday in the State Assembly, after failing to garner a majority. Several Democrats sided with Republicans in opposing the bill or abstained from the vote. The legislation would have deleted "a man and a woman" from California's marriage laws, thus requiring same-sex "marriage" licenses to be issued in every county in the state.

Pro-family groups are pushing for a constitutional amendment banning same-sex "marriage," hoping to have the measure on a ballot in a referendum June 2006. Pro-family groups hope the amendment will happen soon enough to avoid a court-mandated change to the marriage law. "We've avoided this particular bullet, but more attacks on marriage are coming from judges in San Francisco," explained Randy Thomasson, president of Sacramento-based Campaign for Children and Families. "The people of California are learning that to keep everything about marriage for a man and a woman, they absolutely must pass a true-blue state constitutional amendment to override the politicians and judges who have such blatant disregard for marriage and the voters."

Within the next year, a San Francisco state appeals court may uphold Judge Richard Kramer's ruling that man-woman marriage is "unconstitutional." San Francisco Superior Court Judge Kramer ruled in March that a man-woman marriage has "no rational basis," also claiming, "One does not have to be married in order to procreate, nor does one have to procreate in order to be married."  

"Rejecting absolute truth and the clear-cut rules of American jurisprudence, Kramer refused to even address the proven societal benefits of a father and a mother in the raising and nurturing of children," Thomasson said. "What's more, he completely ignored the scientific need of a man and a woman to conceive and give birth to children."

"The people can't stand the government's in-your-face attack upon marriage," Thomasson added, emphasizing the need for a constitutional amendment. "The people will pass a state constitutional amendment to protect marriage for a man and a woman once and for all."