April  2008

Welcome to ProtectMarriage.com

…the official Web site for the California Marriage Protection Act. 

We did it!  The official count of signatures collected to place the marriage amendment on the ballot is 1,122,000!  Right now we are boxing up petitions, and preparing to deliver them to all the county election officials. Thanks to all of you who made this possible! 

Click here to read Press Release.

Many of your may have read or heard over the weekend that Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has vowed to oppose The Marriage Amendment, should it qualify for the ballot.  This is a puzzling change in position, as the Governor has vetoed same-sex “marriage” legislation in the past several years pointing to the fact that the people have voted (Proposition 22) on the issue and the matter is being reviewed in the courts.  Ron Prentice, Chairman of the ProtectMarriage.com steering committee stated, “Governor Schwarzenegger’s flip-flopping reveals his false regard for the will of the people of California. More than 61% of California’s voters defined legal marriage as only between a man and a woman with the passage of Proposition 22 in 2000. However, the Legislature's devotion to special interest groups forces citizens to pursue a constitutional amendment to protect marriage.”  Click here to view the Governor's comments.

A constitutional amendment is the only way to stop the courts from overturning the will of the voters on this issue.  If the Governor truly supports the will of the voters, he would back the amendment.  Perhaps he'll come to realize that we are just protecting the current definition of marriage.

This Web site has many important and useful features for you: 

·         Check out the Resources page for numerous tools and articles.

·         There is also the FAQ page, which will answer many of your questions about the marriage amendment. The Why It’s Needed page provides a chronology of what has taken place over the past several years to get us to this point!