Tragically, just as the last Congress was wrapping up its lame duck session before Christmas, fourteen Republican Senators betrayed the American people – especially the more than 50 million Americans who went to the polls to define marriage as the union of one man and one woman – by voting to pass the disRespect For Marriage Act. Shockingly, Sen. Joni Ernst of Iowa was one of them.
The legislation that Ernst helped enact forces every state to recognize gay ‘marriage’ and opens the door to legalizing all kinds of perverse relationships that someone might call “marriage,” including men marrying child brides.
Joni Ernst claims to be supporter of traditional marriage. She promised voters that when she ran for the Senate in 2014, and went on to express her opposition to the US Supreme Court imposing gay ‘marriage’ on the nation a year later.
“[I was] disappointed by the Supreme Court’s decision and its failure to recognize the freedom of our states to make their own decisions about their respective marriage laws,” she said in a statement, “While it is my personal belief that marriage is between one man and one woman, I maintain that this is an issue best handled at the state level.”
The people of Iowa are strong supporters of marriage being strictly limited to one man and one woman. When their state Supreme Court imposed gay ‘marriage’ in 2009, they voted overwhelmingly in 2010 against retaining three Supreme Court Justices, including the sitting Chief Justice, removing all three activists from the Iowa Supreme Court. NOM played a critical role in that successful judicial retention campaign.
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Despite the overwhelming vote of the Iowa electorate expressing their opposition to the imposition of same-sex ‘marriage,’ not to mention her repeated statements that marriage should be a state issue, in the just-concluded Congress Sen. Ernst betrayed her state and the vast majority of Americans who believe in traditional marriage by enacting a federal statute trumping state rights to recognize marriage solely as the union of one man and one woman.
NOM intends to hold Ernst accountable for helping enact the disRespect For Marriage Act. The good people of Iowa deserve a Senator who reflects their views and values.
Republicans like Joni Ernst who are responsible for this betrayal of marriage hope that voters will soon forget their actions. But NOM will never forget and, with your help, we will hold them to account. Thank you for your support.
Faithfully,
Brian S. Brown, President, National Organization for Marriage
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