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Video: Rhode Island Public School Paints Over Student Mural of "Offensive" Traditional Family

Via NBC 10 Breaking News: WARWICK, R.I. — …Elizabeth Bierenday, a junior at Pilgrim High School in Warwick, was asked to create a mural for the school.She sketched a mural that showed the growth of a boy into adulthood. The last image showed a man with a woman and child and wedding rings over their […]

Reader Defends NOM Against HRC Attacks in Maine Newspaper

Margaret Yates responds to an article published in Maine’s Sun Journal: In the Sun Journal on March 28, the Human Rights Campaign assailed the strategies of the National Organization for Marriage, insinuating, among other things, that it was playing racial politics, “dividing gays and blacks.” This is a media play on 3-year-old, in-house documents recently […]

Video: Vote for Marriage NC Explains Why Marriage Matters, and Much More

The Vote4MarriageNC coalition has created this extended video explaining why marriage matters, what the threats to marriage are, and why marriage protection amendments should be passed:

Obama's Minnesota Campaign Announces Opposition to the Marriage Protection Amendment

It is interesting that in both North Carolina and now here, Obama’s surrogates have claimed the President does not weigh in on “every single ballot measure in every state” even though the President evidently opposes every state effort to protect marriage as the union of husband and wife: President Obama’s Minnesota campaign waded into the […]

A Leftist Case Against SSM: Bad for Marriage, Bad for Government, Bad for Gays

Brendan O’Neill in The Australian: “…The political thirst for gay marriage is underpinned by officialdom’s instinct to get a foot in the door of the family. It devalues marriage as it is currently constituted – in real life, not just in law – and, in an historically unprecedented step, it makes the sovereign of society […]

"David Cameron Pleads With UK Christians for Support Despite Gay Marriage Push"

The Global Christian Post: British Prime Minister David Cameron has pleaded for Christians in the country to stick by him despite his attempts to legalize same sex marriage in the U.K., prompting the question how much support can he really enjoy from the Church? Cameron, in his bid to repair and strengthen his relationship with […]

Seattle Times: 1,500 Washington Churches Requesting R-74 Petitions to Protect Marriage!

The Seattle Times on the growing effort to get marriage on the ballot in Washington this November: “…In the three weeks or so Referendum 74 has been in circulation, [Joseph] Backholm said the campaign has received requests from 1,500 churches across the state, exhausted the first 50,000 petitions and filled orders for thousands more. “We’ve […]

Washington Catholic Bishops Pledge to Join R-74 Signature Gathering Effort

SeattlePI: The two bishops of the Catholic Archdiocese of Seattle, in a letter to the faithful, say they will deploy parishes to collect signatures for Referendum 74, a measure for the November ballot designed to roll back same-sex marriage in Washington. While asking that signatures not be collected on Easter Sunday, the bishops described the […]

The Saratogian: Pro-SSM Sen. Roy McDonald Faces Challenge

The Saratogian: Saratoga County Clerk Kathy Marchione erased whatever speculation may have remained about her candidacy for state Senate on Wednesday afternoon, when she formally declared she’s campaigning for the seat currently held by Sen. Roy McDonald. The announcement sets the stage for a Republican primary in advance of the November election. It could prove […]

Update from Storobin's Facebook Page: Up By 2!

Seen on Storobin For Senate: Still a long way to go.

Brian Bolduc on Obama's Hypocrisy on DOMA and SCOTUS Precedent

Brian Bolduc writing for National Review Online: [Last] Monday, President Obama admonished the Supreme Court to uphold his health-care law, lest it overturn the legislation in a fit of “judicial activism.” The president told reporters: “I’m confident that the Supreme Court will not take what would be an unprecedented, extraordinary step of overturning a law […]

Ohio Attorney General Certifies Same-Sex Marriage Petition

NewsMax: Language to repeal Ohio’s same-sex marriage ban has been certified by Attorney General Mike DeWine, who said it now includes a proper summary of the proposed constitutional amendment. … The amendment, if passed, would modify the state constitution, changing its definition of marriage to be “a union of two consenting adults, regardless of gender.” […]

New Yorkers for Constitutional Freedoms Stands With NOM

Posted to their Facebook page:

Brian Brown in WaTimes: "The Left, Not NOM, Has Created Divisions"

Our President Brian Brown in The Washington Times: In “NOM’s Racial Politics Leave A Bitter Taste” (Web, Wednesday) writer R. Clarke Cooper urges Republicans and conservatives to refuse to associate with the National Organization for Marriage (NOM), the largest and most effective single-issue organization standing for marriage, on the grounds that NOM is engaging in […]

In Wake of Anchorage Voting Down Prop 5, Catholic Archbishop Reminds Faithful of Duty to Be Respectful

From the Catholic Anchor, the newspaper of the Catholic archdiocese of Anchorage: “…Anchorage Archbishop Roger Schwietz was among the prominent religious leaders who urged residents to vote against the ballot measure. Following the election, he issued a public statement affirming the dignity of each person. “The people of the Anchorage Municipality have spoken, and Proposition […]