The Blaze: Regardless of where you stand on the issue of gay marriage, few will likely agree with MSNBC host Krystal Ball’s decision to use heryoung daughter to promote gay marriage during a segment titled “Political Playground” on Thursday. “What if you were in love with a girl? Would you marry a girl?” Ballsasks her daughter. The little girl […]
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Photo: Crowd of 150 Protests Illinois GOP Rep. Who Flipped on SSM
Pro-marriage GOP grassroots in action: While the State Central Committee of the Illinois Republican Party was meeting in Tinley Park to discuss the retention of Pat Brady as Chairman following his lobbying for gay marriage, a crowd that surged to 150 people at one time gathered in front of State Rep. Ed Sullivan’s district office in Mundelein […]
Photo: French NextGen for Marriage
Organized via La Manif Pour Tous (the umbrella group organizing resistance protests to SSM):
Breaking: RNC Members Unanimously Approve Pro-Marriage Resolution
Chris Moody, political reporter for Yahoo! News, just tweeted the update. Update — more from the Washington Post: The Republican National Committee passed resolutions Friday reaffirming its commitment to defining marriage as between a man and a woman, and calling on the Supreme Court to “uphold the sanctity of marriage” as it weighs rulings on two landmark […]
School Cancels Santorum Speech Over Marriage Views
The new “tolerance” — simply blocking pro-marriage figures from sharing their views on any topic: A Michigan high school canceled a speech by former Sen. Rick Santorum after teachers became outraged over his opposition to gay marriage and threatened to stage protests and a possible work stoppage. Santorum had been invited to deliver a upcoming […]
Gay Couple in WA to Christian Florist: Publicly Do Penance, Pay Our Movement $5K, or We Will Sue You
When issues of consequence like this were raised during the campaign against same-sex marriage, the backers of same-sex marriage said things like this would never happen. They went so far as to claim we were lying and that religious freedom was fully protected. That so-called “protection” didn’t even last a matter of weeks. This is […]
Church of England Rejects Blessings for Same-Sex Couples
The UK Guardian: The Church of England has ruled out offering blessings to same-sex couples, insisting that such public gestures belong only to heterosexualmarriage. The announcement – made in a report from the church’s faith and order commission entitled Men and Women in Marriage – comes weeks after the outgoing bishop of Liverpool, the Rt […]
ADF Attorney: Gay-Marriage Advocates are Not Politically Powerless
Kellie Fiedorek is litigation counsel with Alliance Defending Freedom. She writes in the Washington Examiner against the claim made by gay marriage advocates that they are “politically powerless” and therefore need the courts to strike down laws protecting marriage: In their recently filed brief before the U.S. Supreme Court, advocates for redefining marriage argued that […]
Washington State AG Sues Florist For Refusing to Provide Flowers to S-S Ceremony
Like clockwork, those who disagree with gay marriage are being fined and forced out of the public square — by the state-imposed redefinition of marriage: Attorney General Bob Ferguson has filed a consumer protection lawsuit against a florist who refused to provide wedding flowers to a same-sex couple. The complaint was filed in Benton County […]
Oklahoma House Votes 84-0 to Uphold DOMA
Is there any part of the country as pro-SSM as Oklahoma is pro-marriage? The Oklahoma House has approved — without a single negative vote but with some members walking out — a resolution reaffirming marriage as between a man and a woman and supporting the federal Defense of Marriage Act that prohibits recognition of same-sex […]
First Things Editor Reno: If Government Can Reshape Marriage, It Can Reshape Everything
Rusty Reno, editor of First Things, makes the conservative case against the false libertarian notion that redefining marriage will serve to “limit government” — in fact, it will vastly expand government, he argues: “…As marriage gets redefined we’ll see an expansion of government. That’s because gay marriage won’t just happen if government “gets out of […]
Santorum: Supreme Court Won't Make Same Mistake Twice
The Des Moines Register: A “chastened” U.S. Supreme Court won’t make the mistake of granting same-sex marriage rights, former presidential candidate Rick Santorum predicted in an interview today. “I think you’ll see, hopefully, a chastened Supreme Court is not going to make the same mistake in the (current) cases as they did in Roe v. […]
CNN, MSNBC Refuse to Interview Gay Son After He Refuses to Bash Father
The Blaze reports on the media bias against those who hold traditional views of marriage — as we know all too well: During an interview Sunday, Rep. Matt Salmon’s (R-Ariz.) gay sontold KPNX-TV that CNN and MSNBC cancelled interviews with him after he told them he would not bash his father for his stance againstgay […]
Schubert in The Blaze: What to Really Expect from the Supreme Court
Mission Public Affairs President Frank Schubert, who ran the successful Proposition 8 campaign, argues in The Blaze that the Supreme Court will issue a ruling on Prop 8 and will ultimately choose to uphold it: The United States Supreme Court held oral arguments two weeks ago concerning California’s Proposition 8 and, predictably, the media pack […]
Cardinal George, Black Pastors Unite in Defense of Marriage
NBC Chicago: State lawmakers are certainly getting an earful as they prepare to head back to work next week and potentially take up the issue of allowing same sex marriage in Illinois. Cardinal Francis George on Friday joined a group of African American religious leaders to decry the “redefinition of marriage” as “morally wrong.” …The […]