The Blaze: Team Obama “named and shamed” eight private citizens for donating to former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney, The Blaze reported two weeks ago. Frank VanderSloot, one of the eight men detailed by the president’s “Truth Team,” is discovering what it means to be on a president’s “enemies list.” VanderSloot has run a wellness-products company […]
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The Blaze: Romney Donor Finds Out What it Means to Be on President Obama‘s "Enemies List"
CBS Poll: Only 38% Support SSM When Civil Unions Offered
This new CBS News poll is a good reminder that, when given the option of civil unions, only 38% of Americans support redefining marriage. This is similar to the Alliance Defense Fund’s polling which found that 62% of Americans believe marriage should be defined only as a union between one man and one woman:
Newsweek Cover: "The First Gay President"
The New York Daily News: Newsweek isn’t going to let Time win without a fight. In the battle for most controversial cover of the week, Newsweek fired back at Time magazine’s now-infamous breastfeeding mom image by putting President Barack Obama under a rainbow halo with the tagline “The First Gay President.” “Obama’s earned every stripe […]
Rich Lowry: Gay Marriage Is Not Inevitable
Rich Lowry is the editor of National Review: “…History is littered with the wreckage of causes pronounced inevitable by all right-thinking people. The failed Equal Rights Amendment looked inevitable when it passed Congress in 1972 and immediately 30 states ratified it. Opposition to abortion that was supposed to inevitably wither away is as robust as […]
Vulnerable Democratic Senators Balk at Obama's Gay Marriage Endorsement
As we wrote last week, Obama’s support of SSM puts almost every Democrat running in a conservative state in a tough position, according to The Hill: Senate Democrats facing difficult reelections are breaking with President Obama’s endorsement of same-sex marriage, a sign the issue is politically dangerous in battleground states. Sens. Jon Tester (Mont.) and […]
Are Marriage Amendments Bad for Business?
The New York Times tries to make the case but the facts are pathetically against them: Last weekend, former President Bill Clinton took to North Carolina phone lines with a recorded message warning of the perils of a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage and civil unions. “What it will change is North Carolina’s ability to keep […]
Gallup: Independents Dislike Obama’s Gay Marriage Position
Katrino Trinko at National Review Online: Twenty-three percent of independent voters are less likely to vote for Barack Obama because of his announcement that he supports same-sex marriage, according to a Gallup/USA Today poll. Eleven percent are more likely. There might also be a slight shift in how Democrats and Republicans are inclined to vote: […]
Maggie Gallagher: Obama's Gay Marriage Support Will Help Romney in 2012
NOM co-founder Maggie Gallagher is interviewed by Lila Shapiro about how Obama’s marriage flip-flop will affect the Presidential race: What was your first reaction when you heard the president say that he thought that same-sex couples should be able to get married? Relieved. Lying to the American people to get elected is always wrong, so […]
Pro-SSM Iowa Justice Says He Won't Let Voters "Bully" Him
The Indy Star: Iowa Supreme Court Justice David Wiggins vows he won’t stand quietly by if opponents of same-sex marriage launch a potent campaign to oust him from the bench. “If someone wants to attack me, I’m not going to let them bully me,” Wiggins said in a telephone interview last week with The Des […]
Welsh Government Tells Catholic Schools to Give "Balanced Perspective" on Gay Marriage
The BBC: The Welsh government has written to all Catholic schools in Wales to remind them to give a “balanced perspective” when discussing same-sex marriage. Education minister Leighton Andrews’ intervention comes after the Catholic Education Service (CES) invited schools to ask pupils to sign a petition opposing gay civic marriage laws. … “I trust you […]
AP: Obama's Evangelical Spiritual Advisor Tells Him He's Disappointed Over SSM
Rachel Zoll at the Associated Press: The evangelical pastor who President Barack Obama calls his spiritual adviser says he’s disappointed in the president’s decision to endorse same-sex marriage. The Rev. Joel Hunter of Florida told The Associated Press that Obama called him before ABC News broadcast the announcement Wednesday. Hunter says he told the president […]
Breitbart.com: Obama's Gay Marriage Flip-Flop Opens Hollywood Coffers
How do the American people feel about Obama pushing Hollywood morality? President Barack Obama’s star-studded fundraiser tonight with actor George Clooney is expected to bring in $16 million, making it one of the most lucrative political money events ever. Mr. Obama is scheduled to attend a fund-raiser on Thursday night at the Fryman Canyon home […]
FoxNews.com: Sen. Hatch Calls on IRS to Probe Whether Staffer Leaked NOM's Tax Return
FoxNews.com: Sen. Orrin Hatch is calling on the IRS to investigate whether someone on the inside could have leaked the private tax files of a prominent anti-gay marriage group. Hatch, in a letter Tuesday to IRS Commissioner Douglas Shulman, said, “evidence suggests that the IRS may have been the source of the unauthorized disclosure of […]
NOM's Peters: Socially Conservative Democrats Will "Jump Ship" Over Obama's Marriage Betrayal
NOM’s Thomas Peters in Politico: “…social conservatives remain convinced that black voters and Hispanic voters will be demoralized by Obama’s flop. “There’s a heck of a lot of socially conservative minorities that are part of the Democratic coalition — his coalition — that will jump ship,” said Thomas Peters, the cultural director for the National […]
Brian Brown in USNews & World Report: "State by State, Americans Don't Want Gay Marriage"
Our President Brian Brown in US News & World Report’s Debate Club: President Obama’s embrace of gay marriage will help ensure he becomes a one-term president. Despite what many in the media claim, the American people do not support same-sex marriage. Every time they have voted on marriage—32 states overall—they have voted to preserve traditional […]




