Federal Marriage Amendment

Alan Chambers from Exodus International and Matt Staver of The Libetry Counsel joined me this morning to talk about the Federal Marriage Amendment.


JOINT RESOLUTION
Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relating to marriage.


Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled (two-thirds of each House concurring therein), That the following article is proposed as an amendment to the Constitution of the United States, which shall be valid to all intents and purposes as part of the Constitution when ratified by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several States within seven years after the date of its submission for ratification:

`Article --

`SECTION 1. Marriage in the United States shall consist only of the union of a man and a woman. Neither this Constitution or the constitution of any State, nor state or federal law, shall be construed to require that marital status or the legal incidents thereof be conferred upon unmarried couples or groups.'.

With a Senate vote scheduled for Wednesday on a gay marriage ban, the mainstream media is a flutter with bewilderment as to why the Senate is needlessly taking up this issue. Yet, 45 out of 50 states have passed state measures banning the practice.

The Media Research Center found the following bias:

- A new ABC News poll found that by a 22-point margin -- 58 to 36 percent -- a solid majority of Americans believe "same-sex marriage should be illegal," yet, on Monday's World News Tonight, ABC anchor Charles Gibson declared that "the polls show Americans are fairly evenly split on this issue."

- The Today show has already portrayed the proposed Federal Marriage Amendment as nothing more then pandering to conservatives.

For more examples, please see www.newsbusters.org, MRC’s blog about media bias.