From the Maryland Catholic Conference:
Voting records are now available online for two new laws, signed into law recently by Gov. O'Malley, that undermine the legal status of marriage.
Senate Bill 566 grants marriage equivalency to domestic partners for the purpose of medical decision making.
Senate Bill 597 grants marriage equivalency to domestic partners for the purpose of exemption from recordation and transfer taxes.
Please click here to see the grid of how your state lawmakers voted on both SB 566 and SB 597.
The grid can be searched by legislators' last name or district. Click here to find out what district you live in .
Once you find out how your state lawmakers voted, please click the link on their last names in the grid to e-mail them:
• If your lawmakers voted "yes" on SB 566 and SB 597, tell them that you're disappointed in their vote and encourage them to uphold marriage in the future.
• If your lawmakers voted "no" on SB 566 and SB 597, thank them and tell them you support their position in favor of traditional marriage.
However and most important, DON'T VOTE FOR THEM IN THE NEXT ELECTION! (This is my opinion, and not the MD Catholic Conference's -- but it should be!)
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4 comments:
People have to wake up. If nothing is done now to stop the tide, it will overcome us in the future.
This homosexual "marriage" agenda has members of the media and big money behind it. Slowly but surely they will use those means to erode the moral values of Americans until they get their way.
But, as more and more morals are eradicated we also move closer to societal collapse.
The Fall of Rome was not an anomaly.
I was curious to see how the legislature addressed the implication that this condones homosexual behavior. And, they very cleverly dodged it with their definition of domestic partner. It actually gives good-old-fashioned plutonic roommates a break on insurance and a friend beside their sickbed.
"(AP) - Maryland lawmakers approved a state definition of domestic partners Thursday:
"Domestic partner" means an individual in a relationship with another individual of the same or opposite sex, provided both individuals:
(a) Are at least 18 years old;
(b) Are not related to each other by blood or marriage within four degrees of consanguinity under civil law rule;
(c) Are not married or in a civil union or domestic partnership with another individual;
(d) Have been in a committed relationship of mutual interdependence for at least 6 consecutive months prior to application in which each individual contributes to some extent to the other individual's maintenance and support with the intention of remaining in the relationship indefinitely; and
(e) Share a common primary residence.
source: Maryland Insurance Administration
The question is whether or not the legal system will treat this as marriage and execute divorce proceedings to disolve a domestic partnership. Then you may see discussion and findings addressing sex (say, from infidelity charges). Until then, though an exclusive relationship, it's arguably not marriage.
If it really did not want to condone homosexual relationships, it would ahve stated that the relationships were between a man/woman and not leave it open ended.
Senate Bill 566 grants marriage equivalency to domestic partners for the purpose of medical decision making.
No need for this law. Holy Cross Hospital already gives domestic partners this right even without any legal requirement.
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