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Breaking News: Maryland Marriage Alliance Files Referendum Papers!

February 28, 2012 – 2:45 pm

The Baltimore Sun: Though Gov. Martin O’Malley hasn’t even inked his freshly passed law legalizing same-sex marriage in Maryland, a group of faith leaders has already filed paperwork to start a petition drive aimed at repealing it. The Maryland Marriage Alliance, made up of mostly African-American church leaders, said in a news release they will […]

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Sebelius Campaigns Against Marriage Amendment in North Carolina

February 28, 2012 – 2:00 pm

Obama’s HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius says it is “hugely important” to defeat the marriage protect amendment in North Carolina — a sure sign they are “hugely” worried they are going to lose: At a Charlotte, N.C., gathering that often sounded like an Obama campaign rally, top Cabinet member Kathleen Sebelius told nearly 1,400 people at […]

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Episcopal Priest "Proud" to Call You and Chris Christie a Bigot

February 28, 2012 – 1:30 pm

The Rev. Susan Russell writes in The Huffington Post’s Gay Voices: Yes, I rise to defend bigotry — but not to defend acts of bigotry that get in the way of our being that nation “with liberty and justice for all” to which we teach our kids to pledge allegiance. Rather, I rise to defend […]

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PA Family Institute: State Marriage Law Under Attack; Legislative Action Needed

February 28, 2012 – 1:00 pm

From an action alert by the Pennsylvania Family Institute: Pennsylvania’s Defense of Marriage Act is facing a constitutional challenge in Federal Court in Philadelphia. Your help is urgently needed to help keep marriage the union of one man and one woman in the state. Attorneys for a lesbian woman who was “married” to her partner […]

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William Duncan's Legal Analysis of Latest DOMA Challenge

February 28, 2012 – 12:00 pm

Legal expert and director of Marriage Law Foundation William Duncan contributed this reaction to the recent DOMA case in California, presided over by Judge White: Apparently it’s getting hard for federal judges in California to show their faces at the professional conventions unless they’ve struck down the Defense of Marriage Act or at least some […]

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Dozens of Rabbis Come Out Against Fidler in NY Special Election

February 28, 2012 – 11:00 am

The Empire, WNYC: A group of 49 rabbis urged followers not to vote for Councilman Lew Fidler in the special election to replace disgraced former senator Carl Kruger. In a letter titled “A Message for the Community”, the rabbis detail Fidler’s support for same-sex marriage, declaring: “It is therefore considered to be a great Chilul […]

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Douthat on Marriage, Self-Interest and Happiness

February 28, 2012 – 10:00 am

Ross Douthat in his New York Times blog on the ongoing conversation about family (and marital) breakdown sparked by Charles Murray’s new book “Coming Apart”: Matt Yglesias has an interesting intervention in the debate over Charles Murray’s “Coming Apart.” In nutshell, he suggests that the decline of marriage in the American working class doesn’t necessarily […]

Posted in Culture, Economics, Marriage | Comments (1)

The Queen Defends the Church of England--And Religious Liberty

February 28, 2012 – 9:00 am

The Queen of England, in her first public event to mark her diamond jubilee, talks about the importance of the Church, and religious liberty. “The concept of our established Church is occasionally misunderstood and, I believe, commonly under-appreciated. […] Woven into the fabric of this country, the Church has helped to build a better society. […]

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LifeSiteNews Editors on Canada's State Takeover Of the Family

February 28, 2012 – 8:00 am

The Editors of LifeSiteNews editorialize on the disturbing story we reported last week: …In the past week we have witnessed the Supreme Court of Canada dismiss the appeal of a Quebec family for permission to exempt their child from that province’s controversial ethics and religious culture course, which critics say is “relativistic,” and teaches that […]

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NOM-NY PAC Endorses, Contributes to Chuck Swanick in Senate Contest Against Mark Grisanti

February 27, 2012 – 3:15 pm

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: February 27, 2012 Contact: Anath Hartmann or Elizabeth Ray (703-683-5004) “Mark Grisanti’s political career will be ended over same-sex marriage, and he might take Dean Skelos with him.” – Brian Brown, NOM president – Washington, D.C.—The National Organization for Marriage’s New York PAC today endorsed Democratic Senate challenger Chuck Swanick over incumbent […]

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Vote4MarriageNC Adds 28,000 Volunteers In One Week!

February 27, 2012 – 3:00 pm

A groundswell of support for the marriage amendment in North Carolina, via the “Vote for Marriage North Carolina” twitter feed: Be sure to follow @NOMtweets for more marriage updates on twitter.

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NYT Blog: "Upstate Senator Loses Support After Voting for Gay Marriage"

February 27, 2012 – 2:30 pm

Voting to redefine marriage has consequences, as John Eligon of the New York Times City Room blog writes: In the first political rebuke of one of the four Republican state senators who voted for same-sex marriage, the Erie County Conservative Party has endorsed a Democrat who is challengingMark J. Grisanti’s re-election bid. The county party’s […]

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Bob McCarthy on Grisanti Losing the Conservative Party: "This is Huge for the GOP"

February 27, 2012 – 1:30 pm

Bob McCarthy of The Buffalo News discusses Flip-Flopper Mark Grisanti’s uphill chances for re-election, especially in light of him losing the Conservative Party endorsement because of his betrayal on marriage. McCarthy also points out that Grisanti’s winning margin in 2010 was the Conservative Party line endorsement:

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Melanie Baker on Maryland's Marriage Vote: "Law Becomes Tyranny"

February 27, 2012 – 1:00 pm

Today on Public Discourse, Melanie Baker of Human Life International reports on recent events in her home state of Maryland, and what’s at stake in the marriage debate: The law cannot be divorced from reality, from nature. The moment this happens, law becomes arbitrary, the whim of the ruling power: it becomes tyranny. …If Maryland’s […]

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PolitickerNY: "NOM Enters Brooklyn State Senate Race"

February 27, 2012 – 12:30 pm

PolitickerNY on NOM’s voter education efforts in the race to replace disgraced marriage flip-flopper Carl Kruger: The National Organization for Marriage has taken its anti-gay marriage efforts down to a local level, purchasing advertisements in the special election to replace former State Senator Carl Kruger. A reader found one of these ads in the Orthodox […]

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