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ACT NOW ON SENATE BILL 152!

Dear Friend,

GOOD NEWS: Senate Bill 152 passed the Senate on Thursday, Feb. 15 with a vote of 27-8.  It is now stuck in the House.   

REVIEW: Senate Bill 152 prohibits all stage agencies, including universities, from creating a new legal entity called “domestic partner” for the purpose of giving health insurance benefits.  This bill simply underscores the second phrase of the 2004 Marriage Protection Amendment, which says, “A legal status identical or substantially similar to that of marriage for unmarried individuals shall not be valid or recognized.”  As you probably know, the University of Louisville is currently ignoring the Marriage Protection Amendment, and the University of Kentucky has authorized domestic partnerships, but has not yet implemented them.  Their initiatives are nothing more than an effort to bypass the Marriage Protection Amendment and to re-define marriage for all practical purposes by granting marriage benefits to unmarried, live-in partners.   

ACTION: Please call the toll free legislative message line – 1-800-372-7181 – and leave this message for your representative:

 “Protect Marriage – Pass Senate Bill 152. 
Stop the Universities from re-defining marriage.” 

Then, ask the receptionist to “copy” your message to Speaker of the House Jody Richards and key leaders Rep. Rocky Adkins, Rep. Bob Damron, and Rep. Charlie Hoffman. 

Understand that there is a huge network of disinformation trying to encourage the universities in their efforts to defy the Marriage Protection Amendment.  It is time to take a stand once again and not allow marriage to be convoluted or counterfeited.  The message line is open from 7:30 a.m. until 11:00 p.m. Monday through Thursday and until 6:00 p.m. EST on Friday.