Arizona’s Politics blog
Two of Arizona’s four Republican Congressmen have signed on to cosponsor a new “Marriage Protection Amendment” to the U.S. Constitution in the wake of last week’s Supreme Court decisions overturning the federal Defense of Marriage Act and letting stand an injunction against Arizona’s decision to eliminate health benefits for same sex partners of state workers.
Reps. David Schweikert (R-CD6) and Trent Franks (R-CD8) are among the 29 Republicans seeking to amend the U.S. Constitution to define “marriage” as “only… the union of a man and a woman” and stating that “(N)either this Constitution, nor the constitution of any State, shall be construed to require that marriage or the legal incidents thereof be conferred upon any union other than the union of a man and a woman.”
