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| Date: From: Subject: | 1/20/2009 2:23:56 PM Home School Legal Defense Association Illinois: Your Calls Needed to Protect Traditional Marriage |
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====================================================================== From the HSLDA E-lert Service... ====================================================================== January 13, 2009 Illinois: Your Calls Needed to Protect Traditional Marriage Dear HSLDA Members and Friends: Representative David Reis has prefiled House Joint Resolution Constitutional Amendment 2, which allows a marriage amendment to go to the voters this upcoming election. The amendment defines marriage as only between one man and one woman. If HJRCA 2 is passed by both the House and the Senate, the issue will go to the people and you will have the opportunity to vote for traditional marriage during the next election! The main part of HJRCA 2 reads: "To secure and preserve the benefits of marriage for our society and for future generations of children, only a union of one man and one woman shall be valid or recognized as a marriage in this State. This State and its political subdivisions shall not create or recognize a legal status similar to that of marriage." Your right to homeschool rests on another freedom: the freedom to direct the education and upbringing of your children. Your parental rights, in turn are supported by the sanctity of marriage. Anything that undermines marriage may ultimately undermine parental rights. Amending the Illinois Constitution will protect the concept of marriage from activist state judges. Without this amendment, an activist judge out of step with the citizens will one day redefine marriage for us. ACTION REQUESTED Call your state representative and give this message: "Please support this amendment that defines marriage as between one man and one woman. Please vote for House Joint Resolution Constitutional Amendment 2. Give citizens an opportunity to have their voices heard in support of preserving traditional marriage." You do not need to identify yourself as a homeschooler. Go to http://www.hslda.org/elink.asp?id=5992 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. Thank you for your support of traditional marriage in Illinois! Sincerely, Christopher J. Klicka HSLDA Senior Counsel ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -> Will your children's inheritance retain its value? If you pass on a legacy of freedom, your children and their children's children will thank you. But freedom is never secure; it must always be guarded. Membership with HSLDA is an investment in the future that can be passed on to future generations of families wanting to teach their children at home. 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