FLORIDA MARRIAGE AMENDMENT REDUX
"Goal is 155,000 Signatures in 155 Days"
By JONI B. HANNIGAN
Managing Editor, Florida Baptist Witness
Published February 16, 2006

Caption:Photo by Joni B. Hannigan
Bill Bunkley (l), legislative consultant to the Florida Baptist Convention, stands with Bill Stephens, Mat Staver, and John Stemberger outside the Florida Supreme Court building Feb 8.

"TALLAHASSEE (FBW)-Leaders of a citizen initiative to amend Florida’s Constitution to define marriage as the institution between one man and one woman remained hopeful Feb. 8 after presenting oral arguments defending the ballot language to the Florida Supreme Court.

Despite not gaining enough signatures to put the amendment before voters in 2006, Mat Staver, lead counsel for Orlando-based Liberty Counsel, represented the official sponsor of the Florida Marriage Protection Amendment, Florida4Marriage.org, which gathered 456,7363 ballots by Feb. 1..."

"John Stemberger, state chairman of the Florida4Marriage.org, called for the launch of “155 in 155,” a movement calling for 155,000 petitions to be signed in 155 days, which began Feb. 8 and ends July 12, 2006. “If there was ever a time for direct democracy, this was it,” Stemberger said at the rally.'

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Note: Interesting piece.