Fearing the Federal Marriage Amendment defining the institution as between one man and one woman may die in committee, traditional-values activists are urging their constituents to contract their members of Congress and U.S. senators and urge them to act on the proposal.
"My friends, we are at a crisis moment on Capitol Hill on the marriage issue. Many members of Congress report they are hearing more from the pro-homosexual marriage crowd than they are hearing from those of us who believe marriage should remain between a man and a woman," wrote Gary Bauer of American Values.
After homosexual "marriage" was given legal legitimacy in jurisdictions across the nation this year, President Bush signaled his support for amending the U.S. Constitution.
In a February 24 speech, Bush said, "After more than two centuries of American jurisprudence and millennia of human experience, a few judges and...