- The Pledge
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The Pledge
As the election season heats up, all eyes will be turned on the GOP presidential race. Will the candidate who goes on to challenge Barack Obama be someone who firmly believes in protecting marriage? That’s what the NOM Marriage Pledge is designed to do—publicly commit Republican presidential candidates to pursuing five critical goals to protect marriage:
- Support sending a federal marriage amendment defining marriage as the union of one man and one woman to the states for ratification.
- Nominate to the U.S. Supreme Court and federal bench judges who are committed to restraint and to applying the original meaning of the Constitution, appoint an attorney general similarly committed, and thus reject the idea our Founding Fathers inserted a right to gay marriage into our Constitution
- Defend the federal Defense of Marriage Act vigorously in court.
- Establish a presidential commission on religious liberty to investigate and document reports of Americans who have been harassed or threatened for exercising key civil rights to organize, to speak, to donate or to vote for marriage and to propose new protections, if needed.
- Advance legislation to return to the people of the District of Columbia their right to vote on marriage.
- The Signers
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The Signers
Five GOP candidates have distinguished themselves as marriage champions by signing the NOM marriage pledge to voters. Learn more about their views on marriage and other positions on important issues below.
Click on the photos below to watch each of the candidates answer questions on marriage at the latest Presidential debates.
- The Holdout
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The Holdout
Alone among the GOP presidential candidates with notable support, Ron Paul has time and again refused to promise to the American people that he will be a champion for marriage. At the Iowa Thanksgiving Family Forum, he repeated his position that he would not support a federal marriage amendment and still refuses to sign the NOM pledge.
Get the full story about Ron Paul's record on marriage at WrongOnMarriage.com.
- Your Pledge
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Your Pledge
The American people – and especially GOP primary voters – stand firmly on the side of marriage. Please take a moment to sign the petition below, telling GOP leaders that you will support only presidential candidates who have signed this pledge to protect marriage, and encouraging candidates who have not yet signed the pledge to do so today.
Yes, I want a marriage champion for president! Therefore I will only support a nominee who has pledged to protect marriage in these five critical ways.
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