Chicago, Ill.–Illinois Family Institute (IFI) and Protect Marriage Illinois (PMI), will protest the AFL-CIOconvention today at Chicago’s Navy Pier — asking rank-and-file attendees if they are aware that union leaders are undercutting the institution of marriage as between one man and one woman.

The AFL-CIO recently passed a resolution condemning the Federal Marriage Amendment (FMA) and similar state amendments that protect the age-old definition of marriage as one man-one woman. The resolution reflects growing homosexual advocacy at AFL-CIO, including one campaign launched by the union’s homosexual caucus that asks “gay” workers to identify themselves as “Proud Union Queers” (Click HERE to view the AFL-CIO “Pride at Work” web page containing the graphic at right).

IFI and PMI are holding a protest in front of the AFL-CIO on Monday morning, July 25, beginning at 8:30. Protect Marriage Illinois (www.protectmarriageillinois.org) is leading the campaign for a constitutional amendment in Illinois to protect marriage. 

Most AFL-CIO members have no idea the union has become a leading force for mainstreaming homosexuality in the culture. The union’s gay agenda–from bashing the FMA to promoting ‘domestic partnerships,’ and even transsexual ‘rights’–comes at the expense of real labor issues. In fact, it exploits the vast majority of AFL-CIO employees who are pro-marriage and pro-traditional family.

Last month, IFI joined 40 other pro-family organizations from across the country in writing to AFL-CIO President John Sweeney, asking him to rescind the union’s pro-homosexual resolution. The letter read in part:

We know that many of those who faithfully support our organizations and ministries are also loyal union members. On behalf of their families, specifically on behalf of their children and future generations of America’s children, we will not stand silently by while national AFL-CIO officials use the hard-earned dues money of America’s working men and women against their will, and at odds with their own deeply-held religious and moral convictions–to advance a political agenda that threatens to undermine the institutions of God-ordained marriage and the family.

The full letter is available online by clicking HERE.

For more information::

American Family Association of Michigan’s website (AFA-Michigan President Gary Glenn has led the effort to expose and confront the AFL-CIO’s “gay” agenda)

Union Workers Against Gay “Marriage” website

Pride at Work website (Pride at Work, “organizing gay, lesbian, bisexual & transgender labor,” is one of the AFL-CIO’s six core constituency groups, as outlined on this AFL-CIO web page.

IFI works to protect marriage, the natural family and the sanctity of life in Illinois. IFI, 799 Roosevelt Rd., Suite 3-208, Glen Ellyn, IL 60137.