On Wednesday, New Hampshire became the sixth state to allow homosexual "marriage."
Lawmakers claim the controversial law will protect religious liberties, but Bruce Hausknecht, judicial analyst at Focus on the Family Action, said that's not the case.
"While the debate over the lack of religious-liberty protections revealed the dangers to the First Amendment rights of citizens, the language added to the bill is pitifully ineffective," he said. "Not only will the law create family situations where children will be deprived of either a mother or a father, but citizens are being deprived of significant First Amendment rights, as well."
Under similar statutes, Christian business owners and churches have been forced to violate their religious beliefs.
Hausknecht said the definition of marriage remains non-negotiable for the majority of Americans.
A recent New Hampshire survey found 64 percent of respondents agreed that “marriage between one man and one woman should be the only legal definition of marriage.”
Meanwhile, the Pennsylvania Senate soon will consider dueling pieces of legislation on same-sex "marriage," the Philadelphia Inquirer reported.
Democratic Sen. Daylin Leach has introduced the state's first bill to legalize gay "marriage." Republican Sen. John Eichelberger is behind a constitutional marriage-protection amendment that would define marriage as the union between one man and one woman.
With two weeks left in the legislative session, New York's same-sex "marriage" bill remains stuck in the state Senate.
