Defending the Family By Senator Fred Smith
Throughout thousands of years of human history and every year of American history, people have recognized that marriage is a sacred bond between one man and one woman. This view is now under attack across the country. Liberal judges in Massachusetts, New York, and California are legislating from the bench to rewrite their states' marriage laws, instead of upholding them. The New Jersey legislature, following the lead of Vermont and Connecticut, just passed legislation establishing civil unions between homosexual couples.
An overwhelming majority of North Carolinians support marriage as a sacred bond between one man and one woman, but our current laws are not enough to protect society's most important institution. While NC General Statutes 51-1 and 51-1.2 already define marriage as "between a man and a woman," a single Superior Court judge could overturn these North Carolina statutes protecting marriage. Also, these statutes can be overturned by any future General Assembly that wants to repeal our state's statutes protecting marriage.
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