The Albany Times-Union’s Capital Confidential blog: Time Warner Cable gave advocates of same-sex marriage $70,846 of free airtime this spring, a disclosure form shows. The television giant aired advertisements produced by the Human Rights Campaign as part of its “New Yorkers for Marriage Equality” series during March and May, as Gov. Andrew Cuomo pushed for […]
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Did Gay Activists Force Starbucks CEO to Cancel Church Speech?
August 16, 2011 – 1:01 pm
Winona Daily News reports: Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz canceled an appearance at one of the most prominent megachurches in the country after an online petition condemned the congregation as anti-gay _ a charge the church denies. Schultz had been scheduled to speak Friday at The Global Leadership Summit organized by the Willow Creek Association, based […]
VA Legislator: "On SSM, O'Malley Should Heed O'Brien"
August 16, 2011 – 11:00 am
Bob Marshall writes in the Baltimore Sun: “… As a Catholic, a 20-year member of the Virginia General Assembly, the author of Virginia’s 2006 voter-approved one-man, one-woman Constitutional Marriage Amendment, and a graduate ofMaryland public schools, I take issue with Gov. Martin O’Malley’s insinuation that Baltimore’s archbishop should remain silent while the governor attempts to […]
University of North Carolina: Government-Approved Theology on Gay Issues
August 16, 2011 – 10:30 am
Columnist Mike Adams at Town Hall comments: The campus left [at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington] keeps handing me more material to write about in my weekly column. The endless supply of column-worthy madness is fueled by the endless degree of hypocrisy in the name of campus diversity. That isn’t surprising because our campus […]
Michele Bachmann, on Campaign Trail, Praises Iowans for Defeating Pro-SSM Judges in Iowa
August 16, 2011 – 10:14 am
In the Des Moines Register Caucuses blog: Michele Bachmann [at the Iowa Straw Poll] emphasized her stand against marriage for same-sex couples and her opposition to abortion. “You showed the world when you did not retain those justices in your last election,” Bachmann said to a screaming crowd, referring to the members of the Iowa […]
Charles Limandri Interviews Newt Gingrich on Marriage, Life and American Exceptionalism
August 15, 2011 – 3:10 pm
Charles Limandri at Catholic Radio of San Diego recently interviewed GOP presidential candidate Newt Gingrich. You can find the audio here. Here’s a sample of the interview back-and-forth: Charles Limandri: When I read in your book that there’s a strong connection between having strong families and having strong economic growth in how strong families are […]
Maggie Gallagher to Participate in SCOTUSblog Symposium on SSM
August 15, 2011 – 2:00 pm
NOM Chairman Maggie Gallagher will participate with many others in this SCOTUSblog symposium: Continuing with our summer symposia, for the next two weeks SCOTUSblog will be hosting an on-line debate on the topic of same-sex marriage. Although neither the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) nor California’s Proposition 8 (now embodied in Article 1 Section […]
Stanford Prof Asks: Is Marriage for White People? How African American Marriage Decline Affects Everyone
August 15, 2011 – 9:00 am
David French at NRO’s The Corner blog explains: “…the Wall Street Journal has waded once again into controversial social territory. On Saturday, Stanford law professor Ralph Richard Banks — author of the forthcoming book, Is Marriage for White People?: How the African American Marriage Decline Affects Everyone — urged black women to help save marriage by marrying men of […]
Australian Bishop Protests Census Recognition of SSM
August 15, 2011 – 8:30 am
Via Catholic Culture: An Australian Catholic bishop has decried the decision of national census officials to count some homosexual couples as “married,” despite the fact that same-sex marriages are not legally recognized in Australia. … Marriage, the bishop argued, “is a legally defined reality that can be objectively determined.” Since marriage is defined in Australia […]
15,000 Catholics & Protestants Rally in Defense of Family in Chile
August 15, 2011 – 8:00 am
LifeSiteNews: Despite an attack on its Facebook page and a cold rain, an estimated 15,000 people showed up for Chile’s first “March for Values” on July 30 in the capital of Santiago, expressing their support for the institution of the family in the face of a [gay] campaign to create civil unions and homosexual “marriage” […]
San Diego Attorney Pleads Guilty to Baby Selling
August 14, 2011 – 9:00 am
In the San Diego Examiner: Poway based attorney Theresa Erickson, a nationally recognized surrogacy attorney (in part from her east coast based public relations firm), was just snared in a black market baby selling practice. Babies born overseas fetched up to $100,000.00 per child. Parents had no idea the infants were purchased. … Erickson admitted […]
Study Finds Marked Rise in Intensely Sexualized Images of Women, not Men
August 13, 2011 – 10:00 am
Eurekalert: A study by University at Buffalo sociologists has found that the portrayal of women in the popular media over the last several decades has become increasingly sexualized, even “pornified.” The same is not true of the portrayal of men. These findings may be cause for concern, the researchers say, because previous research has found […]
Robert Patterson: Why Do Economists Calculate Divorce as a Gain?
August 13, 2011 – 9:00 am
Robert Patterson asks the question in Family in America: …the fatal flaw is that the GDP [Gross Domestic Product] leaves out the most important sector of society that makes the private and public sectors able to function: the social sector. … Further skewing the books, every time an intact family breaks up—which represents a huge […]
New Essay: Families We Choose? Visions of a World Without Blood Ties
August 13, 2011 – 8:00 am
The abstract of a new article by George W. Dent, Jr. at Case Western Reserve University School of Law: The traditional family comprising a married woman and man and their biological children has been so common across the globe and throughout history that it can reasonably be called the “natural family.” The privileged legal and […]
Iowa Press: No Clear Front-Runner Emerges for Straw Poll
August 13, 2011 – 8:00 am
Local WCFCourier on today’s presidential straw poll in Ames, Iowa: With only days to go before the Republican Party of Iowa’s Straw Poll, analysts say perhaps 10 percent to 20 percent of the people who plan to go to Ames haven’t made up their minds whom they’re going to support. … Social and evangelical conservatives within […]
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