Navajo Nation Council may veto marriage act (In July, still time to act)

[The Straight Story]

2005 Dine' Marriage Act denounced

Posted: May 16, 2005
by: Brenda Norrell / Indian Country Today
SAN FRANCISCO - While American Indian gays in San Francisco defended Indian two-spirit people, the Navajo Nation Council defended proposed legislation, which would ban same-sex marriages on the Navajo Nation.

Although Navajo President Joe Shirley Jr. vetoed the Dine' Marriage Act of 2005, the act could become law if the Navajo Nation Council overrides the veto in July. The act bans marriages between members of the same sex and family members.

Members of the Native American Cultural Center of San Francisco denounced the action toward two-spirits, calling the act intrusive and based on Christianity, a newcomer to indigenous peoples.

''We are shocked and saddened that the Navajo Tribal Council would attempt to make such an intrusive decision into the personal lives of its members,'' the group said in a statement to Indian Country Today.

http://www.indiancountry.com/content.cfm?id=1096410926

Still time to have our voices heard:
http://www.navajonationcouncil.org/



Navajo Nation Council
Office of the Speaker

Hon. Lawrence T. Morgan,
Speaker of the Navajo Nation Council

P.O. Box 3390
200 Parkway Administration Building 1
Window Rock, AZ 86515

Telephone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]

website: www.navajonationcouncil.org

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1. Contact Council membe Larry Anderson

He is the one who started this whole issue. We have far more important and crtical issues facing out tribe than this. We should not be wasting our time and resources on this.