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H.R.8404 is the opposite of “Respect for Marriage."
Tell South Dakota Senators Mike Rounds and John Thune NOT to vote for H.R.8404.
Contact Mike Rounds 202-224-7482; Contact John Thune
The Senate is scheduled to vote TODAY at 3:15pm on the first procedural vote on the Respect for Marriage Act, legislation that provides that marriages that are legal in one state must be recognized in every state regardless of that state’s marriage laws.
Legal experts say an amendment to “protect” religious liberty and ban polygamy is full of loopholes and will not work.
Besides imposing same-sex marriage on every state (and the people and organizations within that state), the legislation also would also force every other form of marriage that is allowed in at least one state. So if New Jersey, for example, legalized the marriage of young children to adults, South Dakota would have to honor it.
Child marriage is legal in more than 91 countries in the world, and in some parts of the United States marriage is legal for children as young as 12.
There are unintended consequences we cannot imagine until they take place. This 2014 story is about a San Francisco man who married his dog.
It will take ten Republicans to vote with all 50 Democrats to pass this legislation. With Senators Tillis, Portman and Collins committed to passing the bill, they only need seven more Republicans. Please call your two Senators. Then if you want to multiply your effectiveness, call every senator on the list at the end of the blog.
Please do everything in your power to help stop it.
Demand that these Senators respect the will of the voters and reject this legislation. Time is of the essence.
Contact Mike Rounds 202-224-7482; Contact John Thune
Tenth Amendment
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
