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NJ Family Policy Council Asks For Support of Viki Knox

December 20, 2011 – 2:00 pm

A call to action from the New Jersey Family Policy Council: I’m writing to inform you of another Union Board of Education meeting taking place tomorrow night at the Union High School library. From information that we’ve received, there appears to be a witch hunt taking place against Viki Knox, the teacher who objected to […]

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11th Circuit Refuses to Grant Preliminary Injunction in ASU Counseling Dispute

December 20, 2011 – 1:30 pm

The Eleventh Circuit has just rejected a counseling student’s effort to prevent Augusta State University in Georgia from requiring her to participate in a special “remediation plan” to get her to separate her religious beliefs about sexuality from her work as a counselor. The school made the requirement a condition of her ability to participate […]

Posted in Free Speech, Georgia, Law, Religious Liberty, Same Sex Marriage | Comments (17)

Young America's Foundation Calls on Hamline U. to Come Clean

December 20, 2011 – 1:00 pm

Ron Meyer writing for the Young America’s Foundation Quad blog writes about the situation at Hamline U.: Hamline’s unexplained decision seems to link pretty closely with these faculty complaints—based solely on Emmer’s conservative beliefs. Bonilla’s complaints falsely presumed that because of Emmer’s stance on marriage (held my millions of Americans), Emmer would discriminate against certain […]

Posted in California, Education, Free Speech, Minnesota, Same Sex Marriage | Comments (2)

NY Post: SSM Flip-Flopper Kruger To Plead Guilty to Corruption Charges

December 20, 2011 – 12:30 pm

The New York Post: Embattled state Sen. Carl Kruger is expected to plead guilty to a raft of corruption charges tomorrow after cutting a deal with the feds, The Post has learned. … a guilty plea from Kruger — who’s expected to admit committing four felonies — would result in the Brooklyn Democrat’s automatic expulsion […]

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UK Prime Minister Begs Archbishop: Stand Up for Christian Moral Code

December 20, 2011 – 12:00 pm

David Cameron, who is also pushing gay marriage, tells the Archbishop of Canterbury to be more Christian, as the UK Daily Mail reports: David Cameron last night called on the Archbishop of Canterbury to lead a return to the ‘moral code’ of the Bible. In a highly personal speech about faith, the Prime Minister accused […]

Posted in Culture, Marriage, Religious Liberty, Same Sex Marriage, United Kingdom | Comments (3)

UK Telegraph Editors: Nick Clegg Fails to Understand Why Marriage Really Matters

December 20, 2011 – 11:00 am

The editors of the UK Telegraph on England’s Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg, failing to understand why conservatives believe in defending marriage and family: It is very easy to interpret Mr Clegg’s speech as an attack on one of the institutions that his Coalition partners most treasure: the traditional, nuclear family. He suggests that people […]

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American Spectator: Critiques of Romney on Marriage Overblown

December 20, 2011 – 10:30 am

W. James Antle, III of American Spectator comes to Mitt Romney’s defense on his record of defending marriage: Even during his most socially liberal campaign, the 1994 run against Ted Kennedy, Romney never openly supported same-sex marriage (at the time, this would not have even been a mainstream position among Democrats). He opposed both same-sex […]

Posted in Election Watch 2012, Iowa, Marriage, Marriage Election Watch, Massachusetts, Same Sex Marriage | Comments (8)

Mom: Son Kicked Out of Class Over Views on Gays

December 20, 2011 – 10:00 am

Gannett News Service: A woman has filed a federal lawsuit against her school district and a high school teacher for kicking her son out of class because her son’s religious beliefs prevent him from accepting homosexuality. The Thomas More Law Center filed the lawsuit last week on behalf of Sandra Glowacki, a Catholic, who accused […]

Posted in Education, Free Speech, Michigan, Religious Liberty | Comments (6)

WaPo Op-Ed: "The Marriage Gap Presents a Real Cost"

December 20, 2011 – 9:00 am

Ruth Marcus of The Washington Post: If current trends hold, within a few years, less than half the U.S. adult population will be married. This precipitous decline isn’t just a social problem. It’s also an economic problem. Specifically, it’s an income-inequality and economic-mobility problem. The steadily dropping marriage rate both contributes to income inequality and […]

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CitizenLink: On DOMA, Justice Department Fighting Against the Law

December 20, 2011 – 8:00 am

Karla Dial at CitizenLink: The case of a federal employee whose lesbian partner was denied spousal benefits under the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) was heard in a federal court today — and in an unprecedented twist, the U.S. Department of Justice was fighting against the law of the land … “Taxpayers should take special […]

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Village Voice: NOM is "Major Power Broker in Republican Primaries Across the Nation"

December 19, 2011 – 4:30 pm

Steve Thrasher of The Village Voice (a gay news site in NYC) acknowledges the effectiveness of NOM and our supporters (and the importance of marriage to GOP voters). Of course he thinks what we’re doing to protect marriage is “bigotry” but we and our supporters are used to hearing this attack by now: NOM has […]

Posted in Election Watch 2012, Marriage, Marriage Election Watch, New York, News, Same Sex Marriage | Comments (9)

Politico: Obama Preps 2012 Pitch to Gay Voters

December 19, 2011 – 3:00 pm

Politico on President Obama trying to have it both ways when it comes to gay issues: It seemed at first a major violation of message discipline: Shaun Donovan, President Barack Obama’s secretary of housing and urban development, “absolutely” endorsed same-sex marriage in an interview last month, a position in contrast with his boss, who famously […]

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An Email that Proves Emmer is Telling the Truth?

December 19, 2011 – 2:30 pm

There are still many questions to be answered in the Tom Emmer v. Hamline U. dispute, but Alex Friedrich of Minnesota Public Radio posts one email from the university to Emmer which seems to corroborate Emmer’s version of what happened: Craig: I am the new Department Chair under which Business law falls. For the spring […]

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Video: The Marriage Debate Between Santorum and Romney

December 19, 2011 – 2:00 pm

At this weekend’s GOP debate, Mitt Romney interrupts Chris Wallace to make clear he has always supported marriage as one man and one woman and fought hard for a marriage amendment in Massachusetts. Rick Santorum claims, not hard enough:

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