Why do we need a Federal Marriage Amendment? Is amending the Constitution really necessary to protect marriage?
Throughout the late 1990’s and as recently as 2003, 38 states and the federal government passed laws designed to protect traditional marriage. These are called Defense of Marriage Acts (DOMAs). We need a FMA because one federal judge can overrule both the Federal DOMA and the DOMAs of 38 States by declaring they violate the Full Faith & Credit Clause of the U.S. Constitution. The Full Faith and Credit clause requires states to recognize contracts and agreements from other states, such as marriage licenses. Any federal judge can also strike down all the DOMAs by ruling that they disenfranchise homosexuals and thus violate the 14th Amendment’s guarantee of Equal Protection. The amendment was originally passed to give equal rights to former slaves. What is happening is not an accident. It is the implementation of a specific plan made public by Lambda Legal and homosexual activists. Over a decade ago, they realized they could not win a same-sex marriage vote in any State; thus they started
