Pro-Family Leader: Indiana Citizens Want Traditional Marriage Protected

by Allie Martin
February 3, 2004

(AgapePress) - A pro-family activist in Indiana says the time for a constitutional amendment to ban same-sex "marriages" is long overdue.

The proposed resolution, which calls for an election to decide the fate of a constitutional amendment banning same-sex unions in the Hoosier State, would make Indiana the 39th U.S. state to strengthen its marriage laws.

Micah Clark, executive director of the American Family Association of Indiana, says the resolution has a good chance of passage, despite efforts by liberal Democratic lawmakers to block the proposal.

Clark notes that the speaker of the House and the chairman of the House committee that would consider the bill have both said they do not feel the bill is important to Indiana citizens and that they have no plans to hold a hearing on the legislation. But surveys of the Hoosier populace do not bear out these partisan claims.

According to a recent poll, 73 percent of Indiana residents believe the protection of traditional marriage is an important issue, Clark notes. "All the polls in Indiana show overwhelming support for marriage," he says, "and we have 55 legislators who have now signed on as co-author to a House version to amend the state constitution."

The AFA of Indiana spokesman believes the measure will pass because concerned citizens recognize that failing to defend traditional marriage will have serious future consequences. He says pro-family individuals understand that once society exceeds the time-tested boundaries of marriage between one man and one woman, there is no logical stopping point.

"If we don't preserve marriage today, we're opening the door to allowing not only homosexual marriages but polygamy and bigamy as well. And that means that ultimately, marriage will become meaningless," Clark says.

According to Clark, despite key Democrats claims that the pro-marriage measure is not necessary, it is in fact essential to the future of American families. The pro-family activist says that if marriage comes to means anything that people decide it means, then it will ultimately mean nothing.