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Pastor on FoxNews: Gay Marriage Opponents Are The Oppressed Ones

This week Megyn Kelly interviewed a panel of pastors on FoxNews about their views on marriage and how the debate needs to change:

MacLeod: Marriage, Religious Liberty, and the Ban Myth

Adam, an associate professor at Faulkner University’s Thomas Goode Jones School of Law writes in the Public Discourse that “It’s a myth that marriage law ‘bans’ same-sex relationships because it treats marriage as the union of a man and a woman”: In a column at CNN.com, Marc Stern asks whether “gay rights” will infringe religious […]

Video: All the March for Marriage Speakers!

Did you miss the March for Marriage? Now you can watch the whole program of our rally on the National Mall! This playlist plays the individual speakers one by one, as well as the introduction and closing remarks by our President Brian Brown: What’s the next step? Signing our citizens petition to the Supreme Court!

GOP Flip-Floppers Silent On Religious Freedom, Other Implicating Questions

Breitbart News sent the questions below on non-discrimination ordinances to the four Republicans in Congress who have flip-flopped on marriage. They have yet to receive a response from their offices. That’s because these Republicans are in the process of learning that a) their new position is hugely unpopular with their base and b) betraying marriage […]

Video: Jeremy Irons Shares His Reservations About Redefining Marriage

Movie star Jeremy Irons, in a moment rarely scene in interviews of celebrities, speaks honestly and intelligently about his concern that redefining marriage will have serious consequences: Academy-Award-winning actor Jeremy Irons raised questions about same-sex marriage in an interview yesterday with HuffPostLive. “Could a father not marry his son?” asked Irons. “Well, there are laws […]

Douthat in NYTimes: Conservatives Correctly Predicted the Consequences of SSM

Ross Douthat in the New York Times on conservatives accurately predicting what changing marriage will do: “…the conservative view [of what would happen if we redefine marriage] has actually had decent predictive power. As the cause of gay marriage has pressed forward, the social link between marriage and childbearing has indeed weakened faster than before. […]

CNA: Study Shows African Americans Reject Civil, Gay rights Equation

CNA: A new survey of African Americans shows that most disagree with the claim that the effort to promote gay rights is comparable to the historic movement for racial equality. About 55 percent of respondents to a Zogby Analytics survey said that equal rights for gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transgendered persons are not the same […]

Holloway: Justice Sotomayor and the Path to Polygamy

Carson Hallowoy argues in The Public Discourse that “The oral arguments on Proposition 8 at the Supreme Court suggest that there is very good reason to believe that the declaration of a “right” to same-sex marriage will set us on the path to polygamy”: Opponents of same-sex marriage resist it because it amounts to redefining […]

WorldTribune: The Newsworthy March for Marriage that Did Not Make the News

Cliff Kincaid, Director of the Accuracy In Media Center for Investigative Journalism, on what he saw at the March for Marriage — and what you won’t see if you only get your news from mainstream media: Significant news came out of last Tuesday’s March for Marriage demonstration in Washington, D.C. But it didn’t make “news” […]

Video: Anderson Debates S. E. Cupp on Marriage and Libertarianism

Last week Ryan Anderson debated a panel of libertarians and S. E. Cupp and explained to them why protecting marriage is the libertarian and pro-limited government position: Hat tip: Heritage’s The Foundry blog.

Video: Brian Brown Defends Marriage on Meet the Press

This weekend our President Brian Brown appeared on Meet the Press to defend marriage and counter the lie that redefining marriage is inevitable: On the question of marriage and the Supreme Court he said: “The truth is the truth. The truth is marriage is based upon the distinction between men and women, husbands and wives, […]

Palko on the Emerging Coalition for Marriage

Christopher Palko at First Things comments on the ethnic diversity of those who united for the March for Marriage last week — and sees in it a sign of things to come: Last Tuesday’s March for Marriage contained many of the standard elements for a socially conservative protest march. There were young families pushing strollers, […]

Video: NOM's Peters on MSNBC: Marriage Should Be Decided by the People, Not the Court

Over the weekend our Communications Director Thomas Peters went on MSNBC to stand up for the rights of pro-marriage people to have their votes and voice respected by the Supreme Court: On whether gays and lesbians are “politically powerless” he said: “I think what John Roberts was asking was a really fascinating question because currently […]

Video: Thousands March for Marriage, Media Reports 'Dozens'

The Family Research Council, which co-sponsored the March for Marriage, has posted a video calling out the media for under-reporting the march and for under-estimating its numbers:

Rep. Matt Salmon: Gay Son Hasn’t Changed My Views on Gay Marriage

The Washington Post’s Post Politics blog: In an interview aired over the weekend, Rep. Matt J. Salmon (R-Ariz.) told a local news station that his son’s homosexuality has not led him to change his position on gay marriage. “I don’t support the gay marriage,” the congressman said. But Salmon emphasized that he loved and respected […]