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In
order to make it easy for you to tell others the
truth about Issue 1 and remind them to vote YES
on November 2 to protect marriage, we have
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to everyone you know in Ohio with a VOTE YES message.
Many,
many Ohioans have worked hard for six months to place on our ballot an amendment
that will confirm the truth of marriage as the union of one man and one woman
and that will take that truth out of the reach of activist judges or any other
force that would seek to destroy it. We
are almost there!
The
same-sex activists who are opposing us know that the overwhelming majority of
Ohioans want to protect the truth of marriage as understood by every major world
religion and confirmed by every enduring society in the history of civilization.
They therefore have stopped talking about marriage, and in Dan
Rather-style claims and reporting, have turned to
distortions and outright lies to scare people into not voting to approve this
amendment that will protect marriage.
We
must expose their lies so that you can help others discern the truth.
Lie
#1: Issue 1 will prevent private
companies from offering health care benefits to their employees.
Answer:
The proposed amendment pertains to the “state and its political
subdivisions” only. There is no
mention of private companies, and there is no reasonable way to construe that
the language would affect private companies.
Further, federal law (the Federal Employee Retirement Income Security Act
[ERISA]) specifically protects the rights of private companies to offer benefits
to whomever they wish and prohibits States from interfering with that
right. It's a nothing but a scare tactic to say otherwise.
Lie
#2: Issue 1 will prevent senior
citizens from executing contracts such as wills, powers of attorney and
mortgages.
Answer:
All these matters are subjects of legal contracts, the enforcement of
which is completely independent of the marital relationship of the parties of
the contracts. A judge asked to enforce
any of these contracts would give no consideration at all to the relationship
between them. This is an
unconscionable attempt to scare our senior citizens.
Lie
#3: Issue 1 will interfere with the
right of single persons and unmarried couples to adopt children.
Answer:
Ludicrous! The proposed
amendment in no way pertains to, affects or changes Ohio’s existing adoption
laws.
Lie
#4: Issue 1 will prevent unmarried
young people from entering into a mortgage together and purchasing a home.
Answer:
The same as Lie #2, but in this case they are targeting younger couples.
A mortgage is a contract, and mortgagers (lending institutions) are not
allowed to consider the relationship of the mortgagees when qualifying them for
a loan.
Lie
#5: Issue 1 threatens maternity
benefits for unmarried parents.
Answer:
In matters of health benefits, including maternity benefits, private
companies and governments are not allowed to discriminate on the basis of
marital status. Clearly, then,
the proposed Marriage Protection Amendment has no bearing on maternity benefits
for anyone, married nor not married!
So
what does Issue 1 do? The first sentence simply and clearly takes the truth of
marriage, as the union of one man and one woman only – a truth already written
into Ohio law – and embeds it in our constitution, thereby protecting it from
judges or any other force that would seek to distort that truth.
The second sentence simply guarantees that the state and its political
subdivisions will not circumvent the intention of the first sentence by creating
“civil unions” or some other relationship that imitates marriage in all but
name.
That’s
all. That’s common sense.
And history proves that’s absolutely necessary for the
preservation of our society.
View
our newspaper ads
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our TV ads
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to our radio ads
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ISSUE 1
PROPOSED CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT
(Proposed by Initiative Petition)
Be it Resolved by the People of the State of Ohio:
That the Constitution of the State of Ohio be amended by
adopting a section to be designated as Section 11 of Article XV thereof, to read
as follows:
Article XV
Section 11. Only a union between one man and one woman may be
a marriage valid in or recognized by this state and its political subdivisions.
This state and its political subdivisions shall not create or recognize a legal
status for relationships of unmarried individuals that intends to approximate
the design, qualities, significance or effect of marriage.
A majority yes vote is necessary for passage.
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