Today on Public Discourse, Jennifer Roback Morse explains how getting the state out of the marriage business will result in a larger, more-intrusive government. This is the second in a three-part series from Morse on privatizing marriage: Libertarians are being taken in by rhetoric that sounds libertarian but, in fact, will lead to a dramatic […]
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Part II: Prof. Jennifer Roback Morse on Why Privatizing Marriage is Impossible
April 3, 2012 – 1:00 pm
Penny Nance: "Absolutely Not" Backing Down from Advocating for Marriage
April 3, 2012 – 11:00 am
Penny Nance of Concerned Women for America: Over the past few years, Republicans have led the charge in passing marriage laws or constitutional amendments in various states and are batting 31 for 31 in their efforts. Now some are wondering if the GOP is backing away from fighting for traditional marriage. “Are we backing down […]
Glenn Stanton: Gay Marriage Means "Boys and Girls Will be Subjected to Intentionally Motherless and Fatherless Homes"
April 3, 2012 – 10:00 am
Glenn Stanton of Focus on the Family: “…Gay activists have conducted their focus groups and message-testing and realized there is one message that works better than all others. In fact, the gay magazine OUT explained in the mid-1990s that the phrases “marriage equality” and “freedom to marry” were “actually something that activists began using on […]
Pastor Wooden and His Upper Room Church Stand Up for Marriage at Meridith College in North Carolina
April 2, 2012 – 3:30 pm
Media elites seem to imagine NOM is responsible for the wedge between blacks and gays on the issue of gay marriage. But the reality on the ground in North Carolina and so many other places is that black church leaders are bravely standing up for what they think is right. It is insulting for the […]
Prof. Jennifer Roback Morse on Why Privatizing Marriage is Impossible
April 2, 2012 – 1:00 pm
Today on Public Discourse, Jennifer Roback Morse explains why the state can’t get out of the marriage business. This is the first in a three-part series from Morse on privatizing marriage: We cannot escape the fact that marriage is an intrinsically public institution. We can’t avoid making collective decisions about its meaning and purpose. If […]
Frances Kelly: "The Biggest Wedge of All is Separating Men and Women in Marriage."
April 2, 2012 – 12:30 pm
Frances Kelley, a conservative writer in Vermont, asks “Which came first: The SSM Wedge or NOM?” “Answer: The wedge was already there. Same-sex marriage activists are disturbed that the National Organization for Marriage reached out to enlist the help of minorities to defend pro-gender marriage. … The elephant in the room is the big fat […]
Calls for MSNBC to Apologize Grow
April 2, 2012 – 12:00 pm
Ken Shepherd of NewsBusters: “Gallagher deserved an apology for Roberts’s unprofessional antics and baseless accusations. She didn’t get one and perhaps is one to let the slights roll off her back. That’s her prerogative, but we reserve the right to call Roberts on the carpet for his breach of journalistic integrity.” Christopher Santarelli of The […]
ABC Local News: 200+ Volunteers Train to Collect Signatures for Marriage Amendment
April 2, 2012 – 11:00 am
WJLA ABC 7 reports on the impressive grassroots organizing already taking place in Maryland on behalf of protecting marriage: “…The Catholic Conference and the Maryland Family Alliance are leading the effort to get the 56,000 signatures needed to take same sex marriage to a ballot referendum. For the first time since the civil rights movement, […]
Pro-Marriage DFL State Legislator Wins Minnesota Special Election Primary in Landslide
April 2, 2012 – 10:00 am
An update from one of our local supporters in Minnesota. The Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party is basically the Democratic party in Minnesota: DFL Minnesota State Rep Lyle Koenen, one of three DFL state legislators to vote to put the Minnesota Marriage Protection Amendment on the ballot, won the DFL primary for the MN Senate District 20 special […]
Georgia Congressional Candidates Spar Over Who is More Pro-Marriage
April 2, 2012 – 9:00 am
Jim Galloway of Political Insider on two GOP candidates jockeying over whose pro-marriage conservative credentials are more solid: You can tell we’re reaching the end of the 2012 session of the Legislature – election-year attacks have already resumed. The 9th District congressional campaign of Doug Collins, a state lawmaker from Gainesville, has signaled that gay […]
Baptist Leader Says North Carolina Crucial in Marriage Debate
April 2, 2012 – 8:00 am
The Rocky Mount Telegram: North Carolina, the last state in the South without a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage, can play a key role in the national debate over the topic, a prominent Southern Baptist leader told an audience in Wake Forest on Wednesday. Richard Land, president of the convention’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, […]
Video: Maggie Gallagher Responds to MSNBC's Questions Over Unsealed Document
April 2, 2012 – 7:00 am
Here is video of NOM co-founder Maggie Gallagher’s appearance last week on MSNBC with Thomas Roberts (her first appearance was goofed by the left-leaning network):
Don't Believe Everything You Read on the Internet
April 1, 2012 – 7:30 pm
Just a reminder, there is a fake piece pretending to be by Maggie Gallagher posted over at something called ChristWire. Lot of that stuff going around today, e.g. the Twitter hoaxer Tommaso De Benedetti.
ADF Video: Hundreds Of Christians Face Jail Time In El Paso
April 1, 2012 – 9:00 am
As this Alliance Defense Fund video explains, “Hundreds of Christians and other El Paso citizens are facing jail time for exercising their constitutionally protected right to speak out against Mayor John Cook’s policies”:
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