Stanley Cox Very Concerned About New Threats To The Sanctity Of My Marriage

For readers who haven't yet received their daily allowance of homophobia and typos, Rep. Stanley Cox (R-Sedalia) has you covered.

August 23, 2009
A New Threat to Traditional Marriage

In 1996 there was much concern across our nation that several states including Hawaii were about to adopt same-sex marriage laws. Opponents of such laws feared that the other states would then be required to recognize such marriages under the Full Faith and Credit Clause of the United States Constitution. That provision of our United States Constitutions [sic] provides in part, full faith and credit shall be given in each state to the public acts, records, and judicial proceedings of every other state. In order to reduce this possibility a bi-partisan vote in the majority of both houses of the U. S. Congress passed Public Law No. 104-199, Defense of Marriage Act "DOMA". President Bill Clinton signed this legislation on September 21, 1996. Without DOMA there is a fear that Missouri and other states would have to accept these types of union [sic] that are currently recognized in such states as Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Iowa. This would mean that a gay couple married in Iowa who subsequently moved to Missouri would have the same rights and privileges as man and woman who were married. These rights would include the ability to adopt children.

In 2004 Missouri voters by a large majority adopted a state constitutional amendment that provided, [sic] That to be valid and recognized in this state, a marriage shall exist only between a man and a woman. Missourian [sic] overwhelmingly adopted this change to our State Constitution and accepted the arguments in favor of traditional marriage. The most compelling of these arguments is that traditional marriage is the only institution that effectively protects and provides for the welfare of our children.

Several weeks ago President Obamas [sic] Justice Department had filed [sic] a brief in federal court in support of DOMA. It is certainly our President and his administrations [sic] responsibility to defend the laws adopted by Congress. This court filing apparently set off a flurry of protests from his gay-lesbian-bisexual-transgender-whatever [sic] allies.

I was shocked to hear last week that the U. S. Justice Department, under the direction of the White House, has reversed its position and filed a second brief this time in opposition of [sic] DOMA. This action poses a threat on Traditional Marriage [sic] in every state including our own. The President through his lawyers is asking a federal court to declare DOMA as unconstitutional. I do not know if his efforts will be successful or not. I do fear that they might be successful at stripping away protection of the form of marriage [sic] that has served western civilization all of our modern history. I also fear is that this action might point to an attempt to directly abolish DOMA in the United States Congress.

Since we already have a provision in our Constitution providing protection to traditional marriage, we in Missouri are better off than other states. I will certainly work in the Missouri General Assembly to continue the defense of traditional marriage. This might include Missouri defending our position in federal courts. If you fell [sic] as I do that marriage should be exclusively defined as being between a man and a woman I would encourage you to act by contacting your congressman [sic] and U. S. Senator and encourage them to resist any efforts to repeal the Defense of Marriage Act, [sic] If we are successful in this effort we will protect future generations in our state from the problems inherent in these modern definitions of the institution of marriage.

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