Federal Marriage Amendment

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The Federal Marriage Amendment (FMA) was proposed in 2004 by Marilyn Musgrave, a Republican congresswoman from Colorado. This proposed constitutional amendment would limit marriage, and the 1000+ federal laws associated with it, to only heterosexual couples.

Unlike the Defense of Marriage Act, the FMA would alter our nation's Constitution, preventing courts from challenging it on constitutional grounds, and would deny states from offering civil unions or domestic partnerships as well as marriage to same-gender couples.

Text of amendment

Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relating to marriage. (Introduced in House)

HJ 56 IH

108th CONGRESS

1st Session

H. J. RES. 56 Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relating to marriage.

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

May 21, 2003 Mrs. MUSGRAVE (for herself, Mr. HALL, Mr. MCINTYRE, Mr. PETERSON of Minnesota, Mrs. JO ANN DAVIS of Virginia, and Mr. VITTER) introduced the following joint resolution; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

JOINT RESOLUTION Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relating to marriage .

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled (two-thirds of each House concurring therein), That the following article is proposed as an amendment to the Constitution of the United States, which shall be valid to all intents and purposes as part of the Constitution when ratified by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several States within seven years after the date of its submission for ratification:

"Article --

"SECTION 1. Marriage in the United States shall consist only of the union of a man and a woman. Neither this Constitution or the constitution of any State, nor state or federal law, shall be construed to require that marital status or the legal incidents thereof be conferred upon unmarried couples or groups."

House Co-Sponsors

Lead Sponsor Marilyn Musgrave CO-4

Co-Sponsors, by date:

(*) retiring as of January 2005

Ralph Hall - 5/21/2003 [TX-4] Mike McIntire - 5/21/2003 [NC-7]

Collin Peterson - 5/21/2003 [MN-7] Jo Ann Davis - 5/21/2003 [VA-1]

David Vitter (*) - 5/21/2003 [LA-1] Joseph Pitts - 6/2/2003 [PA-16]

Roscoe Bartlett - 6/2/2003 [MD-6] Virgil Goode - 6/2/2003 [VA-5]

Joe Wilson - 6/2/2003 [SC-2] Dave Wilson - 6/2/2003 [FL-15]

Mike Pence - 6/10/2003 [IN-6] Ernest Istook - 6/10/2003 [OK-5]

Walter Jones - 6/10/2003 [NC-3] Jim Ryun - 6/10/2003 [KS-2]

Sam Johnson - 6/10/2003 [TX-3] Jim DeMint (*) - 6/10/2003 [SC-4]

Todd Akin - 6/10/2003 [MO-2] Michael Burgess - 6/10/2003 [TX-26]

Charlie Norwood - 6/10/2003 [GA-9] Steve King - 6/24/2003 [IA-5]

Johnny Isakson (*) - 6/24/2003 [GA-6] Mark Souder - 6/24/2003 [IN-3]

Mark Kennedy - 6/24/2003 [MN-6] Jeff Miller - 6/25/2003 [FL-1]

Ron Lewis - 6/25/2003 [KY-2] Robin Hayes - 7/8/2003 [NC-8]

Gresham Barrett - 7/8/2003 [SC-3] Max Burns - 7/8/2003 [GA-12]

Mac Collins (*) - 7/8/2003 [GA-8] Mike Rogers - 7/8/2003 [AL-3]

Pete Hoekstra - 7/10/2003 [MI-2] Kevin Brady - 7/10/2003 [TX-8]

Ed Whitfield - 7/10/2003 [KY-1] Duncan Hunter - 7/10/2003 [CA-52]

John Doolittle - 7/10/2003 [CA-4] Henry Brown - 7/10/2003 [SC-1]

Eric Cantor - 7/10/2003 [VA-7] Phil Gingrey - 7/15/2003 [GA-11]

Lincoln Davis - 7/15/2003 [TN-4] Charles Pickering - 7/15/2003 [MS-3]

Roger Wicker - 7/15/2003 [MS-1] Gene Taylor - 7/17/2003 [MS-4]

Wally Herger - 7/17/2003 [CA-2] John Sullivan - 7/22/2003 [OK-1]

Scott Garrett - 7/22/2003 [NJ-5] Billy Tauzin (*) - 7/22/2003 [LA-3]

Barbara Cubin - 7/22/2003 [WY] Randy Forbes - 7/23/2003 [VA-4]

Christopher Smith - 7/23/2003 [NJ-4] Edward Schrock (*) - 7/23/2003 [VA-2]

Richard Pombo - 7/23/2003 [CA-11] J. D. Hayworth - 7/23/2003 [AZ-5]

Cliff Stearns - 7/23/2003 [FL-6] Randy Cunningham - 7/23/2003 [CA-50]

Stevan Pearce - 7/23/2003 [NM-2] Henry Hyde - 7/23/2003 [IL-6]

Joe Barton - 7/23/2003 [TX-6] John Boener - 7/23/2003 [OH-8]

Gil Gutknecht - 7/23/2003 [MN-1] John Peterson - 7/23/2003 [PA-5]

Todd Tiahrt - 7/23/2003 [KS-4] Trent Franks - 7/23/2003 [AZ-2]

John Carter - 7/24/2003 [TX-31] Jo Ann Emerson - 7/24/2003 [MO-8]

Chris Chocola - 7/24/2003 [IN-2] Dana Rohrabacher - 7/24/2003 [CA-46]

Philip Crane - 7/24/2003 [IL-8] Bill Shuster - 7/24/2003 [PA-9]

Pete Sessions - 7/24/2003 [TX-32] Bob Beauprez - 7/24/2003 [CO-7]

Cass Ballenger (*) - 7/25/2003 [NC-10] Sue Myrick - 7/25/2003 [NC-9]

Pat Toomey (*) - 7/25/2003 [PA-15] John Culberson - 9/3/2003 [TX-7]

Donald Manzulle - 9/3/2003 [IL-16] Tom Osborne - 9/3/2003 [NE-3]

Tom Feeney - 9/3/2003 [FL-24] Ken Lucas (*) - 9/3/2003 [KY-4]

Melissa Hart - 9/3/2003 [PA-4] Howard Coble - 9/9/2003 [NC-6]

Ken Calvert - 9/9/2003 [CA-44] Michael Turner - 9/9/2003 [OH-3]

Jack Kingston - 9/10/2003 [GA-1] John Boozman - 9/10/2003 [AR-3]

Bob Goodlatte - 9/24/2003 [VA-6] Rodney Alexander - 9/24/2003 [LA-5]

Tom Tancredo - 9/24/2003 [CO-6] Spencer Bachus- 9/30/2003 [AL-6]

Thaddeus McCotter - 9/30/2003 [MI-11] Harold Rogers - 10/7/2003 [KY-5]

Jeff Flake - 10/7/2003 [AZ-6] Gary Miller - 10/8/2003 [CA-42]

Robert Aderholt - 10/8/2003 [AL-4] Ric Keller - 10/15/2003 [FL-8]

Terry Everett - 11/20/2003 [AL-2] Randy Neugebauer- 11/20/2003 [TX-19]

Richard Baker - 11/20/2003 [LA-6] John Shadegg - 11/20/2003 [AZ-3]

Dan Burton - 11/20/2003 [IN-5] Nathan Deal - 11/20/2003 [GA-10]

Lamar Smith - 11/21/2003 [TX-21]

Ginny Brown-Waite - 11/21/2003 [FL-5] Chris Cannon - 11/21/2003 [UT-3]

Kenny Hulshof - 11/21/2003 [MO-9] Roy Blunt - 1/23/2004 [MO-7]

Tom Cole - 2/10/2004 [OK-4] Mike Ferguson - 2/10/2004 [NJ-7]

Frank Wolf - 2/10/2004 [VA-10] John Duncan - 2/10/2004 [TN-2]

Marsha Blackburn - 2/24/2004 [TN-7] Jim Nussle - 2/24/2004 [IA-1]

Joel Hefley - 2/24/2004 [CO-5] Max Sandlin - 3/2/2004 [TX-1]

Robert Ney - 3/11/2004 [OH-18] Mike Oxley - 5/5/2004 [OH-4]

Michael Bilirakis - 5/18/2004 [FL-9] Candice Miller - 5/19/2004 [MI-10]

Anne Northup - 6/1/2004 [KY-3] Charles Taylor - 6/8/2004 [NC-11]

Henry Bonilla - 6/8/2004 [TX-23] Richard Burr (*) - 6/8/2004 [NC-5]

Adam Putnam - 7/6/2004 [FL-12] Frank Lucas - 7/7/2004 [OK-3]

George Radanovich - 7/22/2004 [CA-19] Jim Marshall - 9/7/2004 [GA-3]

John Linder - 9/7/2004 [GA-7] Sanford Bishop - 9/29/2004 [GA-2]

Howard McKeon - 9/29/2004 [CA-25]

Senate Co-Sponsors

• Wayne Allard (R-CO) (chief sponsor)
• Sam Brownback (R-KS)
• Thad Cochran (R-MS)
• Michael Enzi (R-WY)
• Peter Fitzgerald (R=IL)
• Bill Frist (R-TN)
• Orrin Hatch (R-UT)
• James Inhofe (R-OK)
• Trent Lott (R-MS)
• Mitch McConnell (R-KY)
• Zell Miller (R-GA)
• Rick Santorum (R-PA)
• Jeff Sessions (R-AL)
• Richard Shelby (R-AL)
• Jim Talent (R-MO)
• George Allen (R-VA) (added June 13, 2004)
• Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX) (added June 13, 2004)