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Pastor Comes to Viki Knox' Defense

October 19, 2011 – 9:00 am

Religion News Service: The pastor of a high school teacher who has been vilified for an anti-gay tirade on Facebook came to the woman’s defense, calling her a “very loving person” who should not be fired for expressing her religious beliefs. The Rev. Milton B. Hobbs, pastor of New Covenant Fellowship in Clark, N.J., said […]

Posted in Education, Free Speech, New Jersey, Religious Liberty | Comments (2)

Peoria Diocese Drops Adoption, Foster-Care Services to Resolve Conflict With Civil Unions Bill

October 19, 2011 – 8:00 am

Catholic Culture World News: The Diocese of Peoria, Illinois, has dropped a legal challenge to a state law requiring equal treatment for same-sex couples in adoption and foster-care services. The Peoria office of Catholic Charities, which faced the loss of government contracts because it would not comply with the new state law, has chosen to […]

Posted in Adoption, Illinois, Religious Liberty | Comments (2)

Tune-In Tomorrow to Hear Marriage Debate Featuring Maggie Gallagher on Minnesota Public Radio

October 18, 2011 – 8:46 pm

Exciting news! Last week NOM co-founder Maggie Gallagher debated Dale Carpenter of the University of Minnesota. The debate was sponsored by the Murphy Institute for Catholic Thought, Law and Public Policy at the University of St. Thomas Law School. You will be able to hear a shortened version of the debate (their two opening statements […]

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Grisanti Ignores Hundreds of Voters Who Showed Up in Buffalo To Protest His SSM Vote

October 18, 2011 – 12:45 pm

Under media scrutiny for selling his vote and betraying his constituents, Sen. Grisanti said a very strange thing to the press: State Senator Mark Grisanti: “To say ‘you’re next,’ first of all I don’t know what that means, second of all it was done by an organization that’s based out of Utah, that pays no […]

Posted in New York, Same Sex Marriage | Comments (14)

Media Coverage of NOM's "Money Dance" Ad

October 18, 2011 – 12:15 pm

NOM’s “Money Dance” ad lampooning the pro-SSM New York Senators who betrayed the voters is already being noticed by New York media: Times-Union Capital Confidential: “The National Organization for Marriage is out with a JibJab-ish web ad attacking the four GOP Senators who voted for same-sex marriage last June. This is a response to the […]

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Chairman of MN for Marriage: "Campaign Finance Board Oversteps Its Authority"

October 18, 2011 – 11:45 am

John Helmberger is the chairman of the Minnesota for Marriage campaign. He writes in the Star-Tribune: The Star Tribune waxes righteous (“Voters should know amendment donors,” Oct. 6) that the Minnesota Campaign Finance Board has “made the right call” in a ruling that attempts to force nonprofit organizations to disclose the identity of supporters if […]

Posted in Law, Marriage, Minnesota | Comments (2)

Illinois Senator Introduces Bill to Allow Religious-Based Foster Care to Continue

October 18, 2011 – 10:30 am

The State-Journal Register: Catholic Charities would be able to continue its foster care and adoption services without serving same-sex couples under legislation introduced this week by state Sen. Kyle McCarter. The bill would amend the Illinois Religious Freedom Protection and Civil Union Act to allow religious-based child-welfare agencies and those operated or owned by a […]

Posted in Adoption, Catholic Church, Civil Unions, Illinois, Religious Liberty | Comments (4)

John Boehner, U.S. House Step Forward to Defend DOMA

October 18, 2011 – 10:00 am

FoxNews: Gays and lesbians are not entitled to the same heightened legal protection and scrutiny against discrimination as racial minorities and women in part because they are far from politically powerless and have ample ability to influence lawmakers, lawyers for a U.S. House of Representatives group said in a federal court filing. … “A spate […]

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

CA Schools Scrambling to Implement SB48, As Parents and Teachers Seek to Opt Out

October 18, 2011 – 9:00 am

The Los Angeles Times: …teachers and administrators are flummoxed about how to carry out a new law requiring California public schools to teach all students — from kindergartners to 12th graders — about lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Americans in history classes. “At this point, I wouldn’t even know where to begin,” Principal Don Wilson […]

Posted in California, Children, Education, Parenting | Comments (23)

New Colorado Group Forms to Counter Tim Gill Political Machine

October 18, 2011 – 8:30 am

The Denver Post: A new conservative political group formed to highlight economic issues has unveiled its first endeavor — automated calls ripping an education tax measure on the Nov. 1 ballot. Compass Colorado was formed to blunt liberal group ProgressNow and similar efforts in the state, said Compass president Tyler Houlton. “The days of conservatives […]

Posted in Colorado, Politics | Comments (1)

CNS: Same-Sex Marriage Deepens Concern for Religious Liberty

October 18, 2011 – 8:00 am

Dennis Sadowski at Catholic News Service: The widening campaign by gay rights advocates to promote same-sex marriage as a civil rights issue is forcing Catholic and other religious institutions to confront charges of intolerance and discrimination. Also at risk, say church officials working on the legal front, is the way religious institutions and individuals opposed […]

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Four GOP Senators Get Forty Pieces of Silver

October 17, 2011 – 1:00 pm

The New York Times reports: This week, the four Republican state senators who provided the decisive votes to pass the marriage bill are to get a big financial boost from those donors, including Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg. A fund-raiser planned for Thursday night in Manhattan is expected to raise about $1.25 million to help finance […]

Posted in New York, Same Sex Marriage | Comments (4)

Michigan Seeks to Protect Counselors’ Rights

October 17, 2011 – 12:44 pm

CitizenLink: As the case of Julea Ward, a graduate student expelled from Eastern Michigan University for referring to another counselor a lesbian seeking help with her same-sex relationship, wends its way through the federal courts, Michigan legislators are considering a bill to keep others from suffering the same way in the future. On Oct. 5 […]

Posted in Free Speech, Law, Michigan, Religious Liberty | Comments (7)

Local TV on Sen. Grisanti's Concern Over LTPV Billboards

October 17, 2011 – 12:15 pm

Despite attending fundraisers with pro-SSM millionaires in New York City, local News 4 reports Sen. Grisanti is preparing for a “bruising re-election battle” in Western New York:

Posted in New York, Same Sex Marriage | Comments (7)

Santorum Responds To Cain's Refusal To Defend Marriage

October 17, 2011 – 11:45 am

On Meet the Press with David Gregory this weekend Hermain Cain said: MR. GREGORY: […] Same sex marriage. Would you seek a constitutional ban for same sex marriage? MR. CAIN: I wouldn’t seek a constitutional ban for same sex marriage, but I am pro traditional marriage. MR. GREGORY: But you would let the states make […]

Posted in Election Watch 2012, Marriage Election Watch, Same Sex Marriage | Comments (16)
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