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Amendment 2: What The Text Says

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The Tampa Tribune

Published: October 3, 2008

Text of Amendment 2, also known as the Florida Marriage Protection Amendment:

"Inasmuch as marriage is the legal union of only one man and one woman as husband and wife, no other legal union that is treated as marriage or the substantial equivalent thereof shall be valid or recognized."

About the amendment:

•"It is important that this passes because we're dealing with the basic building block of our culture." - Bishop Harry Jackson, Hope Christian Church, Lanham, Md.

•"Amendment 2 has the ability to take away existing rights and benefits for millions of Floridians." - Derek Newton, Florida Red and Blue, SayNo2.

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