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Audio: Ken Withrow on Efforts to Shut Down Illinois' Religious Foster Care Agencies

October 7, 2011 – 11:00 am

Ken Withrow of the Evangelical Child and Family Agency on Moody Radio explaining how Illinois Religious Foster Care Agencies are being forced to stop helping kids by the state’s civil unions law:

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NRO on NY Clerk Rose Marie Belforti's Being Within Her Rights

October 7, 2011 – 10:30 am

MarriageADA just posted video of her telling her story. National Review’s Brian Bolduc interviews an Alliance Defense Fund attorney about her rights, and about facts of life in a small New York state town: [Rose Marie] Belforti isn’t picking which laws to enforce, she’s merely changing how she enforces them, says Holly Carmichael, an attorney […]

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MercatorNet: The "National Conflict of Enormous Proportions" Is Not Coming. It Is Here.

October 7, 2011 – 10:00 am

Sheila Liaugminas writes at MercatorNet: Policies of the federal government under the Obama administration have ignited a blaze of concerns about fundamental religious liberties in America. Archbishop Timothy Dolan, president of the US bishops conference, wrote a letter to the president recently. The Administration’s assault on DOMA [Defense of Marriage Act], Archbishop Dolan said, will […]

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New Bishops Committee Responds to Religious Liberty Threats

October 7, 2011 – 9:30 am

Joan Frawley Desmond in the National Catholic Register: “Seeking to fortify the Church’s response to the “erosion of freedom of religion in America,” the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has formed an Ad Hoc Committee for Religious Liberty. The new committee will be headed by Bishop William Lori of Bridgeport. … The subcommittee will have […]

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Focus on the Family's Jim Daly to NYTimes: "Let's Not Speak of 'Hate'"

October 7, 2011 – 9:00 am

Jim Daly, President of Focus on the Family, writes to the New York Times: Some same-sex marriage activists have abandoned reasoned arguments for emotional epithets in trying to win converts to their cause. You report that a gay man from Seattle started a petition “asking Microsoft to end its association with what he called ‘hate […]

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National Public Radio on NOM's New Chairman John Eastman

October 6, 2011 – 1:59 pm

We missed this in our previous summary of media coverage:

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Joel Osteen to Piers Morgan: 200 Years From Now Scripture Will Still Say the Same Thing

October 6, 2011 – 10:00 am

Piers Morgan resumes his favorite line of questioning towards anyone who follows a traditional understanding of the bible. Here’s how televangelist Joel Osteen handles it:

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NC Same-Sex "We Do" Campaign Proves Why Marriage Amendment Necessary

October 6, 2011 – 9:00 am

Gay activists in North Carolina are helping prove the point of the Marriage Amendment, so episodes like this don’t turn into lawsuits which threaten to overturn the state’s laws: A gay rights group launched a campaign Monday in Asheville that seeks to go beyond opposition to a May referendum question on constitutionally barring same-sex marriage […]

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6th Circuit Hears Oral Arguments in Julie Ward Case, Grad Student Expelled for Religious Beliefs on Homosexuality

October 5, 2011 – 3:45 pm

The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati, Ohio, on Tuesday heard oral arguments in the appeal of a former Eastern Michigan University graduate student who was expelled over her refusal to counsel a homosexual patient. The Christian Post has background: Julie Ward enrolled in a counseling practicum course at EMU in 2009 in order […]

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Heritage: NOM Announces New Marriage Anti-Defamation Alliance

October 5, 2011 – 1:00 pm

On their Foundry blog: The National Organization for Marriage recently announced the launch of a new project called the Marriage Anti-Defamation Alliance. This vital project responds to growing concerns about the reprisals directed against many people who support marriage as one man and one woman. The Heritage Foundation has documented, for example, how people who […]

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New Poll: 59% of Maryland African-Americans Oppose SSM

October 5, 2011 – 12:00 pm

That’s the finding of a Gonzales poll released yesterday: 59% of African-Americans oppose redefining marriage. Overall, 49% oppose SSM, 48% support it and 3% offered no opinion (we presume the total equals 101% due to rounding).

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Readers Ask Star Tribune To Be Fair During the Minnesota Marriage Debate

October 5, 2011 – 11:00 am

Several readers of the Minnesota Star Tribune are taking the newspaper to task for its bias on the marriage debate: Who is to decide whether or not “the state is out of step” (editorial, Oct. 1)? No poll or vote taken here in Minnesota has broached this subject that I know of. Until that happens, […]

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No Same-Sex Weddings at West Point's Catholic Chapel, Says Military Archdiocese

October 5, 2011 – 10:30 am

CNSNews: Will same-sex marriage ceremonies be allowed at the Catholic Chapel of the Most Holy Trinity at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point? “The answer is ‘no,’” said Taylor Henry, director of public affairs and media relations for the Catholic Archdiocese for the Military Services, USA, and spokesman for Archbishop Timothy Broglio, who certifies […]

Posted in Catholic Church, DOMA, Same Sex Marriage | Comments (5)

Christian Family Coalition: Ros-Lehtinen Betrayed Her Constituents on Marriage

October 5, 2011 – 10:00 am

Strong words from the Christian Family Coalition, which is located in the congresswoman’s district: Florida Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R) has embarrassed and ridiculed herself by becoming the first Republican to co-sponsor on a deceptive bill to overturn the bipartisan Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). This new fraudulent legislation seeks to overturn the will of the […]

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Minnesota Catholic Conference Makes Clear: "Catholics For Equality" Not Actually Catholic

October 5, 2011 – 9:00 am

The Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis and the Minnesota Catholic Conference recently clarified that a group posing as a Catholic group isn’t actually Catholic: The Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis and the Minnesota Catholic Conference issued a joint statement today explaining that a newly formed group calling itself “Catholics for Marriage Equality MN” […]

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