Committee Hearing on Tuesday for Marriage Bill
Written By David E. Smith
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
The turnout for our Defend Marriage Lobby Day on
Wednesday was beyond our expectations. I thank each and everyone of you
who came out to participate in the largest pro-family event at the
Illinois Capitol in memory. Various reports suggest that between 3000 and 5000 people converged on the Capitol! Our presence will reverberate for weeks and months to come.
Showing up was an important first step in the effort to stop the “fast track” effort to redefine marriage. Now we must maintain pressure on our state representatives so they don’t cave in to the homosexual lobby.
Speaker Michael Madigan (D-Chicago) has assigned the so-called “Religious Freedom and Marriage Fairness Act,” SB 10 to the Illinois House Executive Committee,
which will hear the bill on Tuesday at 3:00 PM. If you are willing and
able to come again to Springfield for this hearing, that would be
wonderful. You can help lobby legislators and fill out witness slips
against this anti-family legislation.
The Executive Committee is made up of 7 Democrats and 4 Republicans, so
the outcome may be a foregone conclusion. However, I would encourage
calls and/or emails to the committee members:
If SB 10 is passed into law, marriage will be redefined for everyone,
stripping it of sexual complementarity. Anyone who does not agree with
this new definition of marriage will soon find themselves facing legal
consequences as has happened in other states and countries. This will
include lawsuits, loss of employment, facing disciplinary boards, etc.
Individuals, small businesses, churches, and religious groups are all at
risk.
To see how many of our “tolerant” government officials would treat
dissenting views or speech, just remember what happened when
Chick-Fil-A’s CEO Dan Cathy spoke out in favor of
natural marriage. His company was threatened with being blacklisted and
forbidden to do businesses in Chicago. Mayor Rahm Emanuel went so far as to say that “Chick-fil-A’s values are not Chicago’s values.” (Contrast that with Emanuel’s recent defense of an offensive “hook-up” billboard in downtown Chicago in which he said, “We do have a First Amendment.”)
Elected officials in Boston, Philadelphia, San Francisco and Washington
DC said the same thing: Chick-Fil-A was not welcome because the owner
holds a traditional view of marriage. The mayor of the District of
Columbia where same-sex “marriage” was imposed by their legislature
said, “there is just no place for them [supporters of traditional
marriage] in this city.”
How long before they tell our churches, our ministries, and our families that our values are not their values?
Take ACTION: If you haven’t yet sent an email or a fax to your state lawmakers, it is time to speak up now! Click HERE to let them know what you think.
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