[Antoninus]

How do we handle, say, the marriage of two men in Belguim or Denmark?

We treat it like the fiction it is. Would we recognize a 19th century Muslim Pasha and his 26 wives if he came to this country?

[longtermmemmory]

This is what the left is saying: Note this representatives efforts to santify homosexual efforts to get into the united states.

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CONGRESSMAN ELIOT ENGEL
17th District, New York
3655 Johnson Avenue, Bronx, NY 10463 - 718 796-9700
2303 Rayburn House Office Building, Washington, DC 20515 - 202 225-2464

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Contact: Gary C. Meltz 202-225-2464 For release:May 16, 2002

ENGEL DENOUNCES CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT
TO OUTLAW SAME-SEX UNIONS

Washington, D.C. - Today, Rep. Eliot Engel (D-NY) released the following statement:
"I am deeply saddened by the introduction of the Federal Marriage Amendment" said Rep. Eliot Engel. "I thought that we had left the politics of hate and division behind us in the last century. At a time when we have thousands of children caught up in a terrible foster care system and thousands of loving gay, lesbian, and unmarried heterosexual families willing to adopt, legislation like this serves no purpose. I will strongly oppose this amendment to the Constitution."

The Federal Marriage Amendment is a constitutional amendment that will prevent the federal and state governments or any court from giving recognition to same-sex marriages and marital benefits to unmarried couples. The amendment could deprive gay families of fundamental protections such as hospital visitation rights, inheritance rights and health care benefits.

The Federal Marriage Amendment says: "Marriage in the United States shall consist only of the union of a man and a woman....Neither this [C]onstitution or the constitution of any state, nor state or federal law, shall be construed to require that marital status or the legal incidents thereof be conferred upon unmarried couples or groups."

Rep. Engel is the author of a resolution supporting the National Day of Silence, and proud cosponsor of the Employment Non-discrimination Act (Shays/Frank), the Permanent Partners Immigration Act (Nadler), the Domestic Partnership Benefits and Obligations Act (Frank), and the State Regulation of Marriage is Appropriate Act (Frank).