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NRO's Robert Costa Interviews Prof. George on Monday's "Serious" Debate

September 4, 2011 – 7:00 pm

In National Review: When Robert P. George, a Princeton University professor of jurisprudence, moderates the Palmetto Freedom Forum on Monday, he won’t ask about deep-dish pizza. Instead, he will urge GOP presidential contenders, as he does his students, to explore their constitutional beliefs. “The idea is to break the mold, to get away from the […]

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40 Orthodox Rabbis Signed Letter Opposing Weprin Over SSM Vote

September 4, 2011 – 10:00 am

A little nugget from the Five Towns Jewish Times: The Five Towns Jewish Times learned last week that the Turner campaign is in possession of a letter signed by 40 Orthodox rabbis in New York which states that because of Mr. Weprin’s vote in favor of legalizing same-sex marriage in New York, it is forbidden according […]

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Britain's Chief Rabbi on Cultural Breakdown Since the 1960s and How to Rebuild

September 3, 2011 – 11:00 am

Lord Jonathan Sacks, chief rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth, gets to the heart of the issue: [The rioting of youth in the UK] was the bursting of a dam of potential trouble that has been building for years. The collapse of families and communities leaves in its wake unsocialized young people, […]

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Rick Lowry: "There is Simply No Substitute for Marriage"

September 3, 2011 – 10:00 am

In his weekly column for National Review: The great divorce revolution of the 1960s and 1970s has faded. The great cohabitation revolution has begun. The divorce rate for married couples with children is almost back to the levels of the early 1960s, before the run-up that crested in the early 1980s. Considering the decades of […]

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Is Marriage About Adults or About Family?

September 3, 2011 – 9:00 am

In an article produced by Stand For Children out of San Francisco: The Reality of Marriage: Two Conflicting Understandings Today, many people see marriage as merely an adult centric institution because there is a cultural rift in the connection between marriage and children. Many people put off having children until later in life. Others have […]

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NC Op-Ed: "I Want my Civil Right to Have a Vote on Marriage"

September 2, 2011 – 3:02 pm

Suzanne Rucker is the former chairwoman of the Cumberland County Republican Party in North Carolina. She writes in the Fayetteville Observer: For eight years, this amendment has been introduced and ignored by the General Assembly, even though credible polling indicates that 70 percent-plus of North Carolina voters support a constitutional amendment defining the union of […]

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NC Chamber of Commerce Mum on Gay Marriage

September 2, 2011 – 2:35 pm

The Charlotte Observer: North Carolina Chamber of Commerce leaders aren’t saying much about if or how a possible legislative push to ban same-sex marriage would affect the state’s business climate. House GOP leaders want to consider a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage when lawmakers return to session Sept. 12. A proposed constitutional amendment must be […]

Posted in Economics, Marriage, North Carolina, Same Sex Marriage | Comments (6)

Video: MN Activist Proves Same-Sex Marriage About Fundamentally Changing What Marriage Is

September 2, 2011 – 2:22 pm

While Denny Smith, Executive Director of Winning Marriage Equality, lists plenty of nice things that happen to be part of marriage (and other deep friendships as well), he is passionately convinced that “marriage is not about sex … it’s not about sex”: Marriage isn’t about sex at all? We wonder what married people would think […]

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Rick Santorum Fights Back!

September 2, 2011 – 11:56 am

Pier Morgan tries to get Rick Santorum to say he’s embarrassed by the Catholic Church’s teachings on sexuality: MORGAN: …I have to say that your views you espoused on this issue are bordering on bigotry, aren’t they? SANTORUM: No. I think just because we disagree on public policy, which is what the debate has been […]

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Turner Tied with Weprin in Latest NY-9 Poll!

September 2, 2011 – 11:14 am

Roll Call: A new Republican-commissioned poll showed the race to replace ex-Rep. Anthony Weiner (D) in New York’s 9th district to be a dead heat. A McLaughlin & Associates poll of 300 likely voters found 42 percent would vote for state Assemblyman David Weprin (D) while 42 percent said they would vote for retired businessman […]

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Jewish Voice Endorses Catholic Bob Turner in NY-9

September 1, 2011 – 2:00 pm

And the editors frame their support of Turner as a protest vote over Weprin’s positions, including his choice to vote for same-sex marriage as in the NY Assembly: Hot-button issues such as the recently passed Marriage Equality Act in the New York State legislature do not escape voters either. Having voted for the law allowing […]

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On SSM, Professor Araujo v. Professor Tribe

September 1, 2011 – 1:30 pm

Prof. John Araujo, SJ at the Loyola University School of Law in Mirror of Justice: Professor Tribe also makes passionate arguments [in his SCOTUSblog symposium contribution] for the “constitutional inevitability of same-sex marriage,” and some of them are based on polls, evolving consensus, and the transformation of culture. In this context, he asserts that arguments […]

Posted in Law, Same Sex Marriage, Science, Supreme Court | Comments (20)

Mexican Presbyterians Sever Ties with U.S. Congregations Over SS Ordination

September 1, 2011 – 1:00 pm

AP: Presbyterians in Mexico are breaking ties with the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) because of differences over homosexuality. The theologically conservative National Presbyterian Church of Mexico voted to stop working with the U.S.denomination. The PCUSA voted in May to remove barriers for ordaining people in same-sex relationships. The U.S. and Mexican churches share a 139-year history […]

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CNN to Air Rick Perry's First Presidential Debate--NOM Founding Chairman Prof. Robert George to Moderate

September 1, 2011 – 12:30 pm

South Carolina’s The State: CNN will provide a live national broadcast of Sen. Jim DeMint’s presidential forum in Columbia Monday. Also, Townhall.com will provide a live webcast of this event and a thirty minute post-forum discussion after the event concludes. The forum, sponsored by The American Principles Project, Palmetto, and DeMint, will feature the top […]

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Weprin Mystified As To Why Orthodox Community Abandoning Him Over SSM Betrayal

September 1, 2011 – 12:00 pm

In this interview with The Jewish Press Assemblyman David Weprin, who is running as a candidate for the upcoming special election in NY-9, seems to imply he’s owed the support of the Orthodox Jewish community, even if he abandoned them on marriage: [The Jewish Press:] You’ve taken some heat in the Orthodox community for your […]

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