KCAVP Supports Missouri Supreme Court Decision to Include Marriage Amendment on August 3rd Ballot

Written by Doug Riley

Thursday, 03 June 2004

Kansas City, MO – The Kansas City Anti-Violence Project (KCAVP), Kansas City’s only nonprofit organization solely dedicated to providing emergency and ongoing services to victims of domestic violence, sexual assault and bias crimes in the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community, joins the Constitution Defense League, PROMO, and other LGBT organizations in the fight against amending the Missouri constitution to ban same-sex marriage.

Doug Riley, Executive Director of KCAVP, acknowledged the Missouri Supreme Court ruling today placing the state constitutional amendment banning gay marriage on the August ballot. “Discrimination regardless of the time of year is wrong. At the same time, we encourage not only members of the LGBT community, but all Missourians to vote against the marriage ban amendment on August 3. This amendment is divisive in that it is discrimination in its most blatant form and the passing of the amendment will breed violence towards the LGBT community and our community as a whole.”

KCAVP encourages all Missourians to vote no on August 3.

KCAVP is a Missouri nonprofit corporation committed to providing services, advocacy and education for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, and bias crimes within the five counties that encompass the metropolitan Kansas City area. For more information about KCAVP, visit http://www.kcavp.org/.

The Constitution Defense League is a campaign committee working to defeat the amendment to the Missouri constitution to ban gay marriage. For more information about the Constitution Defense League, visit http://www.constitutiondefenseleague.org/.

PROMO is Missouri’s only statewide organization advocating for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender equality. For more information about PROMO, visit http://www.promoonline.org/.