Constitutional Amendment: Marriage between two adult persons
It is currently legal for two consenting adults of the same sex to marry in Virginia. There is no prohibition to same sex marriage in Virginia. Churches or ministers who do not believe in same sex marriage are not obligated to perform same sex marriage. They are protected from doing something that is opposition to their deeply held convictions.
What will this amendment do?
This amendment will remove all protections for churches, ministers, or other officials who have the authority to perform marriage ceremonies to abstain from performing same sex marriages.
Thus, churches will be requested to perform these ceremonies and may need to close their doors because they will be unable to afford the legal costs of taking this challenge to the Supreme Court of the United States. The case involving a couple in Colorado that refused to bake a cake went to the Supreme Court twice. What do you think will happen in Virginia?
Further, this amendment introduces the term gender. Gender previously was used to describe traits of masculinity or femininity. However, this term has been grossly misused by those with financial and political motivation and has been corrupted by the medical and psychological communities for financial gain.
Facts: We are male or female. We cannot change our sex. We are not assigned a sex. From the moment of conception, we are male or female. The introduction of the term gender as part of the constitution will open the gates for all laws based on sex to be changed. Yes, this will open the doors to all laws based in sex to be changed. This will help end all protections for women and men sex specific private spaces. Further, women are the most vulnerable to crime when this occurs, but the high school boys who stood to protect their private spaces also felt the full abuse of the system against them.
If you wish to protect religious rights and the integrity of same sex private spaces, sports, or other legal matters, you must vote NO on this amendment.
