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Dr. Morse Responds to Think Progress Spin on "Boys Do Better With Both Parents" Study

January 12, 2012 – 3:00 pm

Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse on the Ruth Institute blog: … Perhaps Mr. Ford [of ThinkProgress] doesn’t realize that the issue of fatherlessness would be a serious issue, even if the definition of marriage were completely off the table. Even if we weren’t debating “gay marriage,” some of us would still be worried about the impact […]

Posted in Children, Parenting, Research/Study | Comments (12)

Breaking News: New Jersey School Board Moves to Fire Viki Knox!

January 12, 2012 – 2:45 pm

The Star-Ledger: The Union Township school board has filed tenure charges against Viki Knox, the high school English teacher whose anti-gay remarks on Facebook raised a firestorm over her free speech rights and her role as a public school teacher. The board formally filed the charges against Knox in late December, a step that begins […]

Posted in Education, New Jersey, Religious Liberty | Comments (48)

Religous Leaders Express Concern: After SSM, Will Government Treat Us Like Racists?

January 12, 2012 – 1:45 pm

This morning an interfaith group of religious leaders, including “Anglican, Baptist, Catholic, Evangelical, Jewish, Lutheran, Mormon, and Pentecostal communities”, released an interfaith statement [PDF here] validating the growing concerns over religious liberty and marriage: “…we believe the most urgent peril [of redefining marriage] is this: forcing or pressuring both individuals and religious organizations—throughout their operations, […]

Posted in Marriage, Religious Liberty, Same Sex Marriage | Comments (16)

Post-NH Poll: Romney, Gingrich Neck-and-Neck in South Carolina, Santorum Third

January 12, 2012 – 1:30 pm

In the InsiderAdvantage/Majority Opinion Research poll of South Carolina primary voters [PDF] taken on January 11th (the day after the New Hampshire primary), Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich are within 2 points of each other with Santorum in 3rd:

Posted in Election Watch 2012, Poll, South Carolina | Comments (1)

Canadian Policy Establishes: Same-Sex Couples From Abroad Not Actually Married

January 12, 2012 – 1:00 pm

The Canadian Globe and Mail: The Harper government has served notice that thousands of same-sex couples who flocked to Canada from abroad since 2004 to get married are not legally wed. … speaking in Halifax Thursday, the Prime Minister said the issue was not on the agenda for his majority Conservatives. “We have no intention of […]

Posted in Canada, Law, Marriage, Same Sex Marriage | Comments (9)

Australia's Greatest Women's Tennis Player Stands for Marriage Despite Gay Campaign

January 12, 2012 – 12:00 pm

The Australian News: Margaret Court has vowed to maintain her opposition to homosexuality and same-sex marriage, undeterred by gay activists planning to use next week’s Australian Open tennis championships to protest against her views. Court, Australia’s greatest women’s tennis player and a senior pastor at Perth’s Victory Life Centre church, said she had never “run […]

Posted in Australia, Marriage, Religious Liberty, Same Sex Marriage | Comments (6)

Democrat Senate President Urges: Vote No on SSM or People Will Defeat It

January 12, 2012 – 11:30 am

The Democrat President of the Maryland Senate, Mike Miller, says in a radio interview that he sees gay marriage as “an attack on the family”, and that he is confident, should Maryland vote to legalize it, the people — “a coalition of evangelicals, catholics, African Americans” – will come together and defeat it at the […]

Posted in Marriage, Maryland, Same Sex Marriage | Comments (6)

New CA Bill Allows Boys and Girls to Share "Facilities" Based on "Gender Identity"

January 12, 2012 – 11:00 am

The Pacific Justice Institute: Less than a week after California’s gay history mandate went into effect, a new pro-LGBT bill introduced last week promises to stir even more controversy. AB 266, sponsored by Assemblyman and comedian Tom Ammiano (D-San Francisco), would require schools to allow students to participate on sports teams according to their “gender […]

Posted in California, Children, Education | Comments (21)

Gallup: New Hampshire 2nd Least Religious State, South Carolina 3rd Most Religious

January 12, 2012 – 10:00 am

Gallup looks at the significant cultural contrasts between New Hampshire and South Carolina: An analysis of more than 350,000 interviews conducted by Gallup in 2008 finds Mississippi, Alabama, South Carolina, Tennessee, Louisiana, and Arkansas to be the most religious states in the nation. Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, and Massachusetts are the least religious states. … […]

Posted in Culture, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, South Carolina | Comments (1)

Cumberland, MD Delegation Agrees: Protect Marriage!

January 12, 2012 – 9:00 am

The Cumberland Times-News in Maryland: While the local legislative delegation may not agree on everything, members agree that marriage rights shouldn’t be given to same-sex partners in Maryland. Sen. George Edwards and delegates Wendell Beitzel, Kevin Kelly and LeRoy Myers Jr. all went on the record opposing same-sex marriage at their prelegislative public meeting Wednesday. […]

Posted in Marriage, Maryland, Same Sex Marriage | Comments (3)

Reminder: NOM Has Pledged $1 Million to Protect Marriage in Maryland

January 11, 2012 – 3:45 pm

A reminder, as the Maryland legislative session opens, that NOM is fully committed to protecting marriage and standing with Democrats and Republicans who join us in this good cause. This from our March 9 press release from last year: The National Organization of Marriage today announced that it will form the “NOM PAC Maryland” in […]

Posted in Marriage, Maryland, Same Sex Marriage | Comments (26)

PPP: In North Carolina, Santorum Is Tied with Obama; Romney Trails by 1

January 11, 2012 – 2:30 pm

The Weekly Standard on democrat-leaning PPP’s latest poll of North Carolina: The latest PPP polling in North Carolina, the swing-state where the Democrats are holding their 2012 convention, shows Rick Santorum faring slightly better than Mitt Romney versus President Obama. The poll shows Santorum and Obama tied at 46 percent apiece in a hypothetical general […]

Posted in Election Watch 2012, North Carolina, South Carolina | Comments (11)

Actual Republicans Represented Less than 50% of New Hampshire Primary Voters

January 11, 2012 – 2:00 pm

Philip Klein of The Washington Examiner: Over at Townhall, Guy Benson has defended the strength of Mitt Romney’s victory in New Hampshire, and I don’t think there’s any disputing that it was a solid win. But I think there’s one important point worth clarifying. Though overall turnout in the primary is projected to set a […]

Posted in Election Watch 2012, New Hampshire | Comments (6)

Supreme Court Slaps Down Obama's Anti-Religion Attack!

January 11, 2012 – 1:30 pm

It was unanimous, as legal Scholar Ed Whelan points out on NRO’s Bench Memos blog: In its unanimous ruling today in Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Lutheran Church v. EEOC, the Supreme Court held that the Establishment Clause and the Free Exercise Clause bar ministers from invoking the employment-discrimination laws against the religious organizations that employ them. Chief […]

Posted in President Obama, Religious Liberty, Supreme Court | Comments (5)

New Hampshire Resident: We Never Asked for Gay Marriage in the First Place

January 11, 2012 – 12:15 pm

A New Hampshire resident writes the Nashua Telegraph calling them out for editorial bias: I was saddened to read your Dec. 28 editorial (“Gay-marriage law assault perplexing”). Rarely have I seen an editorial go so far out of its way to ignore the facts about New Hampshire’s gay-marriage law. The notion that efforts to restore […]

Posted in Marriage, New Hampshire, Same Sex Marriage | Comments (26)
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