Pa. lawmakers hear marriage amendment testimony
The AP reports on York Daily Record:
State lawmakers heard testimony Thursday on a proposed state constitutional amendment that would define marriage as a union between a man and a woman exclusively . . .
Any effort to change Pennsylvania’s constitution would take time. Amendments must be passed in each of two consecutive two-year legislative sessions, then win voter approval in a statewide referendum. The earliest that could happen is 2009.
In 2006, the House and Senate—both controlled by Republicans at the time—passed conflicting versions of an amendment, but could not resolve a dispute over whether it should also apply to civil unions, which conservatives consider equal to gay marriage.
Unfortunately, the media insists on deliberately distorting this debate through inaccurate headlines. The headline published in the above story is: Pa. lawmakers hear testimony on same-sex marriage amendment.
The debate is not just about so-called “same-sex marriage. ” While “same-sex marriage” poses a major threat to the historic definition of marriage, it is only one of many potential dangers.