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| Date: From: Subject: | 4/30/2007 4:11:17 PM Home School Legal Defense Association Illinois: Your Calls Needed to Protect Traditional Marriage |
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====================================================================== From the HSLDA E-lert Service... ====================================================================== April 30, 2007 Illinois: Your Calls Needed to Protect Traditional Marriage Dear HSLDA members and friends: The House of Representatives in Illinois will soon vote on a bill that will radically change traditional family in the state. H.B. 1826 would create civil unions. Any two people who are not related would be allowed to have all the same legal protections and rights that are given to those who are married. Thus, same-sex partners could form a civil union and be licensed by the state. This bill passed the House Human Services Committee, and must be voted on before May 3, 2007. ACTION REQUESTED Call your state representative and give this message: "Please oppose legislation that recognizes same-sex marriage. Please vote against House Bill 1826, which is an attack on traditional marriage; it erodes the family and endangers parental rights." Go to http://capwiz.com/hslda/state/main/?state=IL&view=myofficials to find contact information on your state representative. BACKGROUND How does redefining marriage as being between one man and one woman or creating civil unions in effect providing same-sex marriage potentially affect your right to homeschool your children? Here is what the Supreme Court said in 2000 in the case of Troxel v. Granville: "Our jurisprudence historically has reflected Western civilization concepts of the family (a married couple of one man and one woman) as a unit with broad parental authority over minor children. Our cases have consistently followed that course." Parental rights are based on "western civilization concepts of the family." When those concepts are no longer the legal definition of the family in this nation, then the foundation upon which parental rights are based is completely removed. HSLDA will continue to fight against same-sex marriage. Same-sex marriage attacks the traditions of the family in western civilization. This is an attack on parental rights and a battle the homeschooling movement cannot afford to lose. To see the entire bill text you can go to: http://www.hslda.org/elink.asp?id=4063 . With prayer and hard work, this bill can be defeated. Please call now in support of traditional family values. Thank you for your support of traditional marriage in Illinois! Sincerely, Christopher J. Klicka HSLDA Senior Counsel ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -> How long are you in for? Some families are facing what seems like a lifelong commitment to homeschooling, with children at both ends of the spectrum -- some graduating and some just reaching school age. 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