Cornyn: Important to Preserve Traditional Marriage

Cornyn: Important To Preserve Traditional Marriage
Cornyn votes to proceed on final passage of constitutional amendment -- measure stalls in Senate

U.S. Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee and former chairman of the Constitution Subcommittee, made the following statement regarding the Marriage Protection Amendment, S.J. Res. 1. Sen. Cornyn is a co-sponsor of the amendment. The motion to proceed to a vote on final passage failed 49-48 on Wednesday.

"The American people know what we are talking about is important. They know what we are talking about here in terms of preserving marriage and a better future for our children is fundamental to our way of life. It is not frivolous. It is not politics. It is absolutely essential that we do so.

"We know what happens when the American people have a chance to vote on these issues. Overwhelmingly, they vote in favor of preserving traditional marriage because instinctively they know it is the best solution for our society and certainly in the best interests of our children.

"We have seen too many of our children suffer as a result of social experimentation, certainly by the courts, and we ought to make sure that we preserve the right for we, the people, to make those important decisions rather than allow them to be made by judges who would amend the Constitution themselves under the guise of interpreting the Constitution.

"Obviously this is an issue that we have not initiated, we haven't brought up, but this is a fight that has been brought to us, those of us who believe it is important to preserve traditional marriage."

"I think that is as weighty an issue as we will ever consider here, because it may well determine the long-term direction of our society and the welfare certainly of the next generation."

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