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Petition in support of Romania’s defense of marriage is issued

The World Congress of Families issued a leadership petition in support of a move by Romania to define marriage as the union of a man and a woman, reports Christian Telegraph and World Congress of Families. 42 pro-family leaders from 13 nations have already endorsed the petition. The petition will be presented to the Romanian government in early April.

The text of the petition is shown below:

Whereas the Alliance of Romania’s Families collected over 650,000 signatures on a petition for a defense-of-marriage amendment to the Romanian Constitution

Whereas the Romanian Senate recently passed an amendment to that nation’s Family Code defining marriage as the “union freely consented to between a man and a woman”

Whereas the Romanian Chamber of Deputies is expected to take up the measure before its June recess and Romania’s president has expressed approval of the amendment

Whereas the bureaucracy of the European Union in the past has attempted to intimidate those member-states defending traditional marriage and the natural family

Whereas Europe is plagued by below-replacement birthrates

Whereas the average birthrate for the EU is 1.5 children per woman, with 2.1 needed to replace current population

And, whereas equating same-sex couples with families can only weaken the natural family – which does society’s vital work of procreation and

childrearing

Therefore, we the undersigned pro-family leaders, scholars and activists hereby state our unconditional support for Romania’s defense of marriage. We applaud the Romanian people for taking this courageous step in defense of a divinely ordained institution which predates governments and on whose health the future of society depends.

World Congress of Families

934 North Main Street,

Rockford, Illinois 61103

As Christian Telegraph reported earlier, IN VICTORY Christian magazine and the Christian Telegraph news agency have jointly released a list of Christian leaders chosen because of their influence on Russian-speaking Christians throughout the world. Allan Carlson, the International Secretary of the World Congress of Families is among them.

[03/25/2008]

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