9 reasons for passing

a Marriage Amendment
1. “I think that next year we could actually pass
[homosexual marriage] and get this signed into law.”
State Sen. John Marty
2. Churches and religiously affiliated organizations will be
denied tax-exempt status.
3. Public officials will deny public funds and access to
public facilities and programs to those who disagree.
4. Public employees will be disciplined, demoted, and even
fired for their refusal to recognize same-sex unions.
5. Private colleges and universities will be forced to house
same-sex couples in married student housing.
6. Students will be refused admission or expelled from
professional programs, and licensed professionals will be
forced into “re-education programs” or subjected to
professional discipline.
7. Private universities may lose their accreditation because
they uphold the beliefs of their religious supporters.
8. Public schools will enforce the moral equivalency of
same-sex unions and marriages between a man and a
woman with children and penalize parents who object.
9. Private businesses will be fined for refusal to recognize
same-sex unions as marriages.

Minnesota Family Council, 2855 Anthony Lane S., Suite 150, Minneapolis, MN 55418
1. State Senator John Marty, March 2, 2010.

2. See Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Ass'n of the United Methodist Church v. Papaleo, 2007
WL 4678257 (2007).

3. See e.g. Catholic Charities of Maine, Inc. v. City of Portland, 304 F.Supp.2d 77
(D.Me. 2004) (City denied Catholic Charities access to city housing and community
development funds due to Catholic Charities refusal to comply with ordinance that
required recipients of funds to provide same health and fringe benefits to employees
with domestic partners as those with spouses); Boy Scouts of America, South Florida
Council v. Till, 136 F. Supp. 2d 1295 (S.D. Fla. 2001) (preliminarily enjoining a
school board from continuing to exclude the Boy Scouts from school facilities based on
their negative views of homosexual conduct); and Barnes-Wallace v. Boy Scouts of
America, 275 F. Supp. 2d 1259 (S.D. Cal. 2003) (revoking Boy Scouts' use of publicly
leased park land), question certified to this Court in Barnes-Wallace v. City of San
Diego, 530 F.3d 776 (9th Cir. 2008).

4. Eric W. Holyfield v. City of Los Angeles et al., No. 2:08-cv-05347-GAF-AJW (C.D.

Cal. filed August 14, 2008) (Los Angeles Police Sergeant Eric Holyfield and Pastor of
the Gospel Word of Life Apostolic Church was demoted and denied promotion for
expressing his religious beliefs through the sermon he preached); and Crystal Dixon v.
University of Toledo et al., No. 3:08-cv-02806-DAK (N.D. Ohio, filed December 1, 2008)
(Crystal Dixon, a former Associate Vice President for Human Resources at the University
of Toledo in Ohio, and an African American, was fired after she wrote an op-ed in the
Toledo Free Press taking "umbrage" with comparisons of race with sexual orientation).

5. Levin v. Yeshiva University, 96 N.Y.2d 484 (N.Y. 2001) (university, operating under
Orthodox Jewish auspices, violated a state law prohibiting sexual orientation
discrimination in housing due to its policy of denial of a lesbian couples request to
live in its married housing facilities).

6. See Julea Ward v. Wilbanks, No. 2:09-cv 11237-GCS-PJK (E. D. Mich.,filed Apr. 4,
2009) (student was discharged from social work program at Eastern Michigan University
due to her unwillingness to affirm same-sex relationships when counseling clients);
Lopez v. Candaele et al., CV 09-0995 (Central Dist. Cal. 2009) (student was shouted
down by professor when given a speech on the value of natural marriage as part of a
speech class requirement that students speak on any topic of their choosing); North
Coast Women's Care Medical Group, Inc. v. San Diego Cty Sup. Ct., 189 P.3d 959 (Cal.
2008) (Christian physician was sued for sexual orientation discrimination because she
agreed to treat lesbians infertility, but declined to artificially inseminate her); and
In re Rothenberg, 676 N.W.2d 283(Minn. 2004) (requirement that attorneys attend
elimination of bias courses does not violate state constitutional protections of
conscience or federal first amendment protections)

7. In 2001 the American Psychological Association, which is the only government-

approved body that can accredit professional psychology programs, threatened to revoke
the accreditation of religious colleges and universities that had codes of conduct
forbidding homosexual behavior. Event reported in D. Smith, Accreditation committee
decides to keep religious exemption, 33 MONITOR ON PSYCHOLOGY 1 (Jan. 2002) (describing
why the APA ultimately abandoned its proposal), available at
<http://www.apa.org/monitor/jan02/exemption.html>.

8. See e.g. Parker v. Hurley, 514 F.3d 87, 92-93 (1st Cir. 2008), cert. denied, 2008
WL 1926813 (Oct. 6, 2008) (father jailed for refusing to leave public school grounds
until he received assurances that his kindergarten son would be excused from classes
equating same-sex marriages with natural marriages.

9. Willock v. Elaine Photography, No. 06-12-20-0685 (N.M. Human Rights Comm filed Apr.
4, 2009) (a family-owned photography business declined to photograph a same-sex
“commitment ceremony” and was ordered that it pay thousands of dollars in costs for
violating a sexual orientation nondiscrimination law); and Butler v. Adoption Media,
486 F. Supp. 2d 1022 (N.D. Cal. 2007) (owners of an Arizona website posting pictures of
prospective adoptive parents were subject to liability for refusal to include pictures
of gay couple who were domestic partners under California law).