Just days after voters in Texas passed a constitutional ban on so-called “gay marriage,” the Houston Chronicle reported that the sweeping support for defining the traditional family cut across the entire political spectrum. The newspaper reported that all types of voters backed the pro-family measure, indicating that the marriage amendment’s appeal was not limited to any certain demographic or voting bloc. The Texas marriage amendment, known as “Proposition 2,” won state-wide, with 76% of Texans casting a positive vote.

According to conventional political wisdom, minority voters like blacks and Hispanics tend to support Democrat politicians who often undermine pro-family causes. However, voters in minority precincts rejected the pro-homosexual position of those same liberal politicians, voting instead to secure the Biblical definition of marriage in the state constitution.

(FPN, 5/06) - Nine days before the U.S. Senate voted down consideration of a Marriage Protection Amendment, FPN President Joe Glover received an invitation from the White House to attend an endorsement speech by the President in Washington, D.C. Upon hearing the president’s speech, Glover and FPN Policy Analyst Alex Mason were pleased, but continued to question the president’s tardiness in fighting to protect marriage.

[June, 2006] - Pro-family leaders say the battle for a federal marriage amendment will continue despite this week’s effort by Democrats and a handful of Republicans in the U.S. Senate to keep the matter from coming up for a vote.

Despite the setback, Senator Sam Brownback of Kansas says the fight to protect traditional marriage must continue. “I think it is a foundational issue for society,” the senator says. “When that institution frays, our country frays. When that institution is redefined, we harm how we raise the next generation.”

FPN President Debates Late Marriage Amendment Endorsement in Live CNN Interview

Despite promising to fight to push for an amendment to the U.S. Constitution that would protect marriage as the exclusive union between one man and one woman during his 2004 re-election bid, President Bush failed to deliver in his second term. The day before the U.S. Senate failed to pass a federal Marriage Protection Amendment in June of 2006, FPN President Joe Glover appeared in a nationally-televised debate on CNN to discuss the amendment and to criticize Bush’s lackluster support for its passage.

Glover debates pro-homosexual “Log Cabin Republican Club” leader Patrick Guerriero.

FPN President Joe Glover discussed the U.S. Senate’s failure to pass a Marriage Protection Amendment before a live national television audience on June 7, 2006 — just hours after the vote took place. In an interview hosted by CNN National Political Correspondent John Roberts, Glover dispelled the notion that Senate inaction proves support for a marriage amendment is slipping.

Since 1998, voters in 20 states have passed state constitutional amendments defining marriage as the exclusive union between one man and one woman. On June 7, 2006, U.S. Senators from 8 of those 20 states failed to support the federal Marriage Protection Amendment (MPA). Voters in Hawaii, Louisiana, Michigan, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, North Dakota and Oregon may wonder why.

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Just a few days after the U.S. Senate defeated a proposed constitutional amendment to define marriage as a union between a man and a woman, FPN Policy Analyst Alex Mason discussed efforts to protect the family in a live interview on Baltimore, Maryland radio station WCBM.

On July 18, the House of Representatives struck down H.J. Res. 88, the proposed constitutional amendment that would protect the traditional institution of marriage between one man and one woman by banning homosexual “marriages.” Though a majority of House members supported the bill, the 236-187 vote fell 47 votes short of the 2/3 majority required [...]

(Charlotte Observer: 10/28/06) - In South Carolina, simply passing a constitutional amendment to define marriage as between one man and one woman is not enough: [supporters] want to win with 80 percent of the vote. .. “Personally, I don’t want to see a 55 percent or 60 percent vote,” said Mike Wallace, missions development director for the York Baptist Association. “I want to see an 80 percent vote. That would represent South Carolina values.” .. Nationally, supporters aren’t losing any sleep about the result. “South Carolina is one of those states where it’s guaranteed,” said Joe Glover, president of the Family Policy Network in Washington, D.C. The network is campaigning across the country to pass the amendments banning gay marriage.

A recent column in a conservative publication shows just how broad the political support base is for protecting one-man, one-woman marriage. Readers may not be surprised to learn the head of an organization promoting “American values” penned a commentary in The Weekly Standard — making a strong case for the relationship between the adoption of “gay marriage” and the erosion of traditional values (i.e., higher rates of divorce, unwed childbearing, nonmarital cohabitation, etc.). The surprise comes when readers learn the author is a self-described liberal Democrat from New York who does NOT otherwise oppose homosexual behavior.

Just how long will it take for rogue judges to force homosexual “marriage” onto the Empire State? It may come quicker than you think, thanks to an ruling from the New York Supreme Court. During the week of August 6, 2007, the court ruled that any homosexual “marriages” performed in Canada will be recognized as legal in the state of New York. Homosexual “couples” are now able to travel across the Canadian border to get “married”, and then come back to New York with all the legal rights and benefits intended for one-man, one-woman married couples.

Pro-family groups are denouncing a new California bill passed by the state senate Friday that grants marriage licenses to homosexual couples. The bill, AB43, was passed by a vote 22-15 and seeks to replace the words “a man and a woman” with any “two persons” in California’s marriage laws. The bill now heads to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s desk for approval. CALL AND EMAIL THE GOVERNOR NOW TO URGE HIM TO VETO AB43!

A new plan approved by the California Legislature could be used to ban the words “dad” or “mom” in all public schools as being discriminatory against “partner 1″‘ and “partner 2″ in same-sex relationships, according to critics. The plan, SB777, has passed the state Assembly on a 43-23 vote and it now moves forward to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. CALL AND EMAIL THE GOVERNOR NOW TO URGE HIM TO VETO SB777!

Maryland’s highest court has upheld a state statute that defines marriage as the union between one man and one woman. On September 18th, 2007, the Maryland Court of Appeals reaffirmed the state’s long-standing marriage statute by overturning a lower circuit court’s January 2006 decision that would have allowed homosexuals to “marry”.

In the 4-3 decision, the Court of Appeals cited the government’s interest in “safeguarding an environment most conducive to the stable propagation and continuance of the human race” as a reason for the decision. The court further concluded that since homosexual practices do not qualify as “immutable characteristics”, there is no “fundamental right to marry” afforded to homosexuals.

Conservative Maryland lawmakers [have] promised to reintroduce a constitutional amendment that would make clear that marriage is an institution limited to heterosexual couples, an amendment that has stalled in committee in years past. Del. Donald H. Dwyer Jr., an Anne Arundel County Republican, has been at the forefront of past efforts to pass a constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage. While he called yesterday “a wonderful day” in the wake of the court ruling, he wasn’t dialing back the rhetoric. Even though the court agreed with his stance, he still thinks a constitutional amendment — which would have to be approved by voters — is a necessity.

Despite a favorable court ruling for conservatives, the debate over “gay marriage” in Maryland apparently is far from over.

Several Democrats, including state Sen. Gwendolyn Britt and Del. Victor Ramirez, say they will sponsor bills that would legalize “gay marriage” when the General Assembly meets against next year, the Montgomery County Sentinel reported. Their action comes after the Maryland Court of Appeals — the highest court in the state — refused in a September 4-3 decision to legalize “gay marriage.”

A bill ensuring that unwed parents remain unmarried is receiving strong opposition from a leading California-based pro-family organization. Campaign for Children and Families (CCF) President Randy Thomasson criticized the proposal by saying, “SB 1066 rewards unwed parents for not getting married.” He added, “This foolish bill promotes cohabitation just as government welfare programs subsidized illegitimacy. SB 1066 ensures that unwed parents remain uncommitted. Why get married if you can get the legal rights and benefits of marriage without saying ‘I do?’ And what about the kids, who research shows do much worse in unmarried environments? SB 1066 is bad public policy. It’s blind to the evidence that marriage is 1000 percent more stable than shacking up.”

On November 4th, 2008, nearly six million California citizens rejected radical homosexual activism by writing the Biblical definition of marriage into their state’s constitution. They did so by supporting a ballot refferendum known as “Proposition 8,” which passed on the same day Barak Obama was elected president. Before the election, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger publicly [...]

Shocking video reveals hatred and rage from homosexuals protesting the voters’ decision to make California the 30th state in the nation to enshrine traditional marriage into their state constitution. In the video, homosexual activists surround an older lady who wants to defend the Biblical definition of marriage. They then strip a cross out of her hands and stomp it on the ground and chant “go home” and “shame on you.”

A television news crew captured the footage. Subsequently, homosexuals shouted down an attempt by the crew to interview the woman.