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Christie Gives No Love to SSM in State of State Speech

January 18, 2012 – 2:00 pm

PolitickerNJ: A once pro-choice Gov Chris Christie said his unborn daughter’s beating heart caused him to become pro-life, but while the pounding state Senate President Steve Sweeney (D-3) heard from Steven Goldstein and Garden State Equality prompted Sweeney’s own change of heart on gay marriage, there was no evidence today that Christie heard anything new. A week after […]

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Dr. Morse: Do Kids Need a Mom and a Dad? The University of Chicago Business School Study

January 18, 2012 – 12:00 pm

Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse of the Ruth Institute on the recent University of Chicago Business school study: In a previous post, I discussed a Life-Style Leftist blogman’s outraged response to a perfectly reasonable statement about a very sound study, and analyzed the rhetorical strategy of accusing your opponent of saying something he didn’t say. In […]

Posted in Children, Parenting, Research/Study | Comments (6)

Chris Christie Tells Interviewers This Summer He Won't Change His Mind on Marriage

January 18, 2012 – 11:00 am

In June of 2011, Governor Chris Christie in two separate interviews reiterated his opposition to same-sex marriage. On Meet the Press with David Gregory, when asked about same-sex marriage, Christie said (emphasis ours): “In New Jersey, we have a civil union law, and we had a very vigorous debate in late 2009, early 2010 before […]

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Washington Olympian Editors: Same-Sex Marriage a Distraction from Budget Crisis

January 18, 2012 – 10:00 am

Democrats in Washington state, like Democrats in New Jersey, appear to be elevating pushing same-sex marriage over bread-and-butter issues. The editors of the Washington Olympian say the state’s budget crisis should be the top priority: Will Washington become the seventh state in the nation to legalize same-sex marriage? Will lawmakers be so distracted by the […]

Posted in Economics, Marriage, Same Sex Marriage, Washington | Comments (7)

New Hampshire Voter: Gay-Marriage Law Doesn’t Reflect Us

January 18, 2012 – 9:30 am

A New Hampshire resident writes to the Nashua Telegraph: The Dec. 28 editorial titled “Gay-marriage law assault perplexing” left me equally perplexed – and insulted. What you characterize as an “assault” is actually a commonsense effort to finally put a much-needed check on a social activist agenda that doesn’t reflect the will of the people […]

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Zenit: Jews, Muslims, Christians Join in Defense of Religious Freedom, Marriage

January 18, 2012 – 9:00 am

Italy-based religious news agency Zenit: Leaders of some of the largest religious communities in the United States have joined together in an open letter to all Americans to voice their shared concern for marriage and religious freedom. The letter, titled “Marriage and Religious Freedom: Fundamental Goods That Stand or Fall Together,” was released today. Signatories […]

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Washington Attorney General: Voters, Not Legislature, Should Decide Marriage

January 17, 2012 – 2:30 pm

SeattlePI: The voters of Washington, not the Legislature, should be given the decision of whether the state legalizes same-sex marriage, state Attorney General Rob McKenna said Wednesday. “This is an issue that every voter is capable of deciding, and they ought to decide it,” McKenna, the Republicans’ candidate for governor, told the editorial board of […]

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Video: Governor-Elect Christie Tells New Jersey Voters He Will Veto SSM

January 17, 2012 – 1:30 pm

In 2009, here’s what Governor-elect Chris Christie told a gathering of New Jersey republicans (emphasis ours): “If a same-sex marriage bill comes to the desk of Governor Christie, it will be returned to the legislature with a big red veto across it [applause] because, one, I believe that and I made it very clear to […]

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NJ Dems Make SSM Their Top Agenda, Force Gov. Christie to Show His Hand

January 17, 2012 – 1:00 pm

The New Jersey Statehouse Bureau: As Gov. Chris Christie prepares to give his State of the State address Tuesday, Democrats have already drawn their battle lines. Last week, Democratic legislative leaders announced that they will put gay marriage at the top of their agenda, forcing Christie to either make good on his pledge to veto […]

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AP: "NJ Judge Rules Against Church in Civil Union Flap"

January 17, 2012 – 12:30 pm

The Associated Press: A New Jersey judge ruled Thursday that a church group violated the state’s discrimination laws when it prevented a lesbian couple from holding a civil union ceremony on its property in 2007. The dispute began when the Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association stopped the couple from using its boardwalk pavilion, an area […]

Posted in Civil Unions, New Jersey, Religious Liberty | Comments (12)

New Jersey Columnist to Democrat Legislators: "Let Us Vote" on SSM

January 17, 2012 – 12:00 pm

Paul Mulshine at the New Jersey Star-Ledger: Next month, the state Legislature will gather to repeat an exercise we saw in the waning days of the Corzine administration: Democrats will push a same-sex marriage bill that has no chance of becoming law. The reason it won’t become law is that the Republican governor, Chris Christie, […]

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New Jersey Court Says Church Broke the Law By Following Its Beliefs on Marriage

January 16, 2012 – 1:30 pm

Karla Dial of CitizenLink: A New Jersey Church that refused to allow two women to hold a civil-union ceremony on its property four years ago broke the law, a state administrative law judge said Thursday. Since the judge works for the state’s Division on Civil Rights, his opinion doesn’t have the force of one coming […]

Posted in Civil Unions, New Jersey, Religious Liberty | Comments (45)

Election Watch 2012: Obama Opposes Restoration of Marriage in New Hampshire

January 16, 2012 – 1:00 pm

More proof of the President trying to have it both ways on marriage. This via the gay newspaper The Washington Blade: The White House, in response to a Blade inquiry about the possible vote to repeal same-sex marriage rights in New Hampshire, said Thursday night that President Obama “believes strongly in stopping laws designed to […]

Posted in Election Watch 2012, Marriage, Marriage Election Watch, New Hampshire, President Obama, Same Sex Marriage | Comments (4)

New Jersey Judge: Church Following Beliefs on Marriage Violated Nondiscrimination Law

January 16, 2012 – 12:30 pm

Bob Unrug at WorldNetDaily: A ministry that follows the dictates of its faith is engaging in wrongdoing, according to a New Jersey judge who recommended today that the state Division on Civil Rights find the Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association violated the state’s nondiscrimination law. “The respondent violated the [Law Against Discrimination] when it refused […]

Posted in Civil Unions, Law, New Jersey, Religious Liberty | Comments (9)

Maryland Experts: Why Gov. O'Malley is Wrong on SSM

January 16, 2012 – 12:00 pm

Dr. Ruth Jacobs of Gaithersburg is a physician. Michael J. McManus of Potomac is president of Marriage Savers. They write in the Maryland Gazette: Gov. Martin O’Malley, in promoting same-sex marriage, wants to change the long-established meaning of marriage by promoting an illusion that gender and even biological relationships don’t really matter. Yet the healthiest […]

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