ACTION ALERT: Massachusetts General Court to Consider Marriage Laws Evasion Bill

(CATHOLIC ACTION LEAGUE LEGISLATIVE ACTION ALERT, 13 JUL 2008) On Tuesday July 15, 2008, the Massachusetts State Senate is likely to vote on Senate Bill 800, AN ACT CONCERNING MARRIAGE LAWS, which would repeal a 1913 statute preventing out-of-state couples from marrying in the Commonwealth if their attempted marriage was illegal in their home state.This special interest legislation for the homosexual lobby will, if passed, turn the Bay State into a homosexual and lesbian version of Las Vegas. More significantly however, it will potentially inflict the dishonest and contrived Goodridge decision on every other state in the Union. As events in Massachusetts and California have demonstrated, homosexual activists prefer the battering ram of the courts to the ballot box of democracy. This measure will enable them to litigate in their home states, inviting state supreme court decisions which will invent a right to same gender marriage. If passed by the Senate on Tuesday, the repeal bill will be taken up by the House of Representatives later in the week.

Please call and/or e-mail both your state senator and your state representative on Monday, or before 1 p.m. on Tuesday, and strongly urge them to oppose Senate Bill 800!

You may call the main State House number (617) 722-2000 and ask for your legislator’s office, or click on the following links for their telephone numbers and e-mail addresses:

SENATE: http://www.mass.gov/legis/memmenus.htm

HOUSE: http://www.mass.gov/legis/memmenuh.htm

Here in Massachusetts, marriage has been deformed and the family has been redefined. The right of public school parents to control the moral education of their own children is being usurped. Boston Catholics have been deprived of church-based adoption services. If the homosexual agenda continues to advance, we may soon confront the conditions which prevail north of the border in Canada, where freedom of speech and freedom of religion are being directly imperiled. Please contact your legislators before Tuesday’s vote!