Text of LA SCR 65 (2006)
CONGRESS: Memorializes Congress to support a U.S. Constitutional amendment that would define marriage as the union between one man and one woman.
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Regular Session, 2006
ENROLLED
SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION NO. 65
BY SENATOR SMITH
A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION
To memorialize the Congress of the United States to adopt an amendment to the
Constitution of the United States to define marriage in the United States as the union
between one man and one woman.
WHEREAS, President Bush recently remarked, "After more than two centuries of
American jurisprudence, and millennia of human experience, a few judges and local
authorities are presuming to change the most fundamental institution of civilization"; and
WHEREAS, the efforts of nineteen states to protect traditional marriage by way of
a constitutional amendment defining marriage as the union between one man and one
woman are a clear sign to the rest of the country and to the United States Congress that the
citizens of these states are in support of the traditional definition of marriage; and
WHEREAS, an amendment to the Constitution of the United States is the most
democratic manner by which to curb the power of judges whose agenda affronts the beliefs
of the Founding Fathers of this nation and the will of the American people; and
WHEREAS, the United States Senate is scheduled to vote on the Marriage Protection
Amendment to the Constitution of the United States during the week of June 5, 2006; and
WHEREAS, the Marriage Protection Amendment defines marriage in the United
States as the union between one man and one woman.
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Legislature of Louisiana memorializes
the Congress of the United States to approve an amendment to the Constitution of the United
States that would define marriage as the union between one man and one woman.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Legislature of Louisiana proposes that the
legislatures of each of the several states comprising the United States apply to the United
States Congress requesting the enactment of an appropriate proposal to amend the
Constitution of the United States.
SCR NO. 65
ENROLLED
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BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this Resolution shall be transmitted
to the President of the United States, the secretary of the United States Senate, and the clerk
of the United States House of Representatives, each member of the Louisiana delegation to
the United States Congress, and the presiding officer of each house of each state legislature
in the United States.
PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE
SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES