The most sublime manifestation of true charity is the care that parents freely give to their children with the genuine desire that their children become independent and transcend the parents in their accomplishments in life.  Small wonder that God ordained the family as the basic unit of society and instilled in man and woman an inherent desire to love and bless their offspring.

The rise of secularism and attempts to remove from the public arena the recognition of the divine nature and origin of mankind and the attendant immorality are diminishing the position of marriage and the traditional nuclear family in our society.

Those who wish to ban the free expression of one's belief in God from all public dialogue twist the First Amendment of the Constitution to accomplish it.  There is a preponderance of evidence that the founding fathers had no such intent when they instituted the Bill of Rights.  This corruption of the non establishment clause of the First Amendment is entirely a modern fad.  Not only does the well being of our families rely on our recognition of the divinely ordained role of marriage in our society, but as the Declaration of Independence clearly states, a belief in God and in our divine origin are the foundation principles upon which our claims to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness rely.

It is extraordinary that the practice has endured to the present of empowering ordained ministers to perform marriage ceremonies that are in turn recognized as legally binding in our government administered court system.  The manner of registering the ministers is very simple in most states and the language and procedures used in the marriage ceremony are essentially left to the minister and the prospective bride and groom.  The only thing that warranted such an exceptional process to be instituted was the recognition on the part of the founders of our nation that marriage is ordained of God and that it gets its best start by being put into effect by one who acts as one of his servants.

In light of these things it is not only desirable, but it is crucial that we advance an amendment to the Constitution to define marriage as being between a man and a woman and that we support measures that promote children being conceived and nurtured in families where father and mother honor marital vows. 

In the last century we as a nation arrived at a point where we felt the need to state what had been considered obvious up to that time and put in our Pledge of Allegiance that we are “one nation under God” and put on our coins and currency “In God We Trust.”  The time has now come for us to firmly set in our society the definition of marriage to secure the privileges that we have intentionally accorded that divine institution.