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Video: "Chris Christie Go Away You're Not Welcome" ...in MA?!

March 8, 2012 – 1:00 pm

This is just weird: a guy from Britain who lives in Massachusetts lecturing the Governor of New Jersey on the sacred right of Americans … to redefine marriage?

Posted in Humor, Marriage, New Jersey, Same Sex Marriage | Comments (9)

New Civitas Poll: Support for NC Marriage Amendment Growing; Lawsuit Could Have Positive Impact

March 8, 2012 – 12:00 pm

The latest poll results on the North Carolina Marriage Protection Amendment: A majority, 64 percent, of North Carolina voters say they support a constitutional amendment that establishes marriage between one man and woman as the only recognized domestic legal union in the state. Sixty-four percent of respondents said they support a constitutional amendment that says […]

Posted in Marriage, North Carolina, Same Sex Marriage | Comments (3)

Left-Leaning PPP Poll: Maine SSM Still Failing to Achieve Majority Support

March 8, 2012 – 11:00 am

Left-leaning Public Policy Polling is trying to claim (like many pollsters did in 2009) that the people of Maine will legalize same-sex marriage if asked to vote on it again. Notably, however, the amendment still fails to reach 50%. In fact, support for the same-sex marriage ballot is the same now as it was in […]

Posted in Maine, Marriage, Poll, Same Sex Marriage | Comments (1)

Video: What's At Stake in the Marriage Debate?

March 8, 2012 – 9:00 am

Kalley Yanta explains in this latest Minnesota marriage minute what’s at stake in the marriage debate: “…two competing definitions of marriage. The union of any two people, regardless of gender, versus the understanding of virtually every nation throughout recorded history that marriage is the union of one man and one woman. Under the law, one […]

Posted in Minnesota, New York, Same Sex Marriage | Comments (3)

Obama Campaign Mum on Effort to Place SSM in Democratic Platform

March 8, 2012 – 8:00 am

Andrew Harmon at the gay newspaper The Advocate: The Obama campaign isn’t directly commenting on a growing number of national campaign co-chairs and congressional Democrats calling for a pro-marriage equality platform for the party. In a conference call Wednesday with reporters, Obama campaign manager Jim Messina said Democrats are “the big tent party” and touted […]

Posted in Election Watch 2012, Marriage, Marriage Election Watch, Politics, Same Sex Marriage | Comments (3)

Piers Morgan Praises Kirk Cameron's Defense of Marriage and Morality as "Brave"

March 7, 2012 – 12:00 pm

Piers Morgan has been asking every social conservative who comes on his CNN program about their views on gay marriage and homosexuality. Kirk Cameron, the star of Growing Pains, does an excellent job of reminding Piers that he’s imposing his own value judgement when he asks his leading questions. In fact, when asked about the […]

Posted in Culture, Marriage, Media, Same Sex Marriage | Comments (32)

Studies: Children Raised by Lesbians Not Problem-Free

March 7, 2012 – 11:30 am

CitizenLink: Over the last few years, a few published studies have claimed that children raised by same-sex couples compare favorably to — and sometimes even better than — children raised by moms and dads on measures of self-esteem and academics. Those studies, in turn, have served as fodder for a media campaign that two loving […]

Posted in Children, Marriage, Parenting, Research/Study, Same Sex Marriage | Comments (19)

Telegraph's O'Neill: "Gay Marriage is Now the Issue Through Which the Elite Advertises its Superiority Over the Redneck Masses"

March 7, 2012 – 10:15 am

Brendan O’Neill of the UK Telegraph: “…gay marriage is more a tool of the elite than it is a demand of the demos [populace]. The thing motoring the gay-marriage campaign, its political engine, is not any longstanding desire among homosexuals to get married or an active, passionate demand from below for the right of men […]

Posted in Culture, Marriage, Same Sex Marriage | Comments (8)

North Carolina University Rules Campus Club Not Christian Enough

March 7, 2012 – 9:45 am

The New American: Christian organizations continue to be assaulted on college campuses across the nation. At the University of North Carolina-Greensboro, a Christian club is suing the school after it ruled that the group isn’t religious and so must allow students of other faiths — or no faith — to join and even be in […]

Posted in Culture, Education, Free Speech, North Carolina, Religious Liberty | Comments (2)

Brunswick, NC Commissioners Vote to Support Marriage Protection Amendment

March 7, 2012 – 9:00 am

Local WECT 6 reports: Brunswick County commissioners officially supported a proposed amendment to the state’s constitution that would define marriage as between a man and a woman at their Monday night meeting. A resolution supporting the Defense of Marriage Act was a part of the board’s consent agenda, which the board approved as a whole. […]

Posted in Marriage, North Carolina, Same Sex Marriage | Comments (5)

UK Telegraph's Stanley: Hollywood Trying to Make Gay Marriage Inevitable

March 6, 2012 – 12:00 pm

The UK Telegraph’s Tim Stanley on Hollywood trying to make gay marriage culturally inevitable as the legal and political attempts to redefine marriage falter: On Saturday night, Google and YouTube will be live-streaming the premier of “8,” a play about the federal trial that overturned a California law banning gay marriage. It’s based on court […]

Posted in California, Culture, Marriage, Media, Prop 8, Same Sex Marriage | Comments (25)

Hawaii Governor Refuses to Defend State Laws Protecting Marriage

March 6, 2012 – 11:00 am

CitizenLink explains how respect for the rule of law is also a casualty of the push for gay marriage under any means necessary: On Thursday, the Alliance Defense Fund (ADF) filed a brief asking permission to officially defend a Hawaii constitutional amendment on marriage and a state law defining marriage as the union of one […]

Posted in Hawaii, Marriage, Same Sex Marriage | Comments (25)

AP: Same-Sex Custody Battle Could Redefine Legal Motherhood

March 6, 2012 – 10:00 am

The Associated Press: A custody battle in Florida between two lesbians could fuel the growing national debate over the definition of motherhood. … The women, now in their 30s and known in court papers only by their initials, were both law enforcement officers in Florida. One partner donated an egg that was fertilized and implanted […]

Posted in Children, Ethics, Florida, Law, Parenting, Science | Comments (22)

New Hampshire State Rep. David Bates on the Effort to Restore Marriage

March 6, 2012 – 9:00 am

The National Catholic Register interviews NH State Rep. David Bates on the effort to restore the real definition of marriage: “We have, right now, an illegitimate definition of marriage in our state,” said Bates, the lead sponsor of a bill that would turn back the 2009 law that legalized same-sex “marriage” in his state. If […]

Posted in Marriage, New Hampshire, Same Sex Marriage | Comments (1)

Adam MacLeod: "The Rule of Law is the First Casualty in the Judicial Assault on Marriage."

March 6, 2012 – 8:00 am

Over at Public Discourse, Adam MacLeod, an Associate Professor at Faulkner University’s Thomas Goode Jones School of Law, argues that the rule of law and the legitimacy of the judicial branch are causalities in the push for courts to recognize a right to same-sex marriage: … As Matthew Franck pointed out in Public Discourse, Judge […]

Posted in Law, Marriage, Same Sex Marriage, Supreme Court | Comments (3)
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