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Mark Grisanti Will Attend First SS Wedding at Rainbow-Lit Niagara Falls

July 19, 2011 – 2:00 pm

Via the gay news outlet The Advocate: Buffalo residents Kitty Lambert and Cheryle Rudd plan to marry at midnight this Sunday in a ceremony billed as the first wedding under the new marriage equality law in New York. Lambert and Rudd will marry at the stroke of midnight on Luna Island at the foot of […]

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NY Daily News: NOM Targets "Benedict Arnolds" of the State Senate Who Voted for Gay Marriage

July 19, 2011 – 1:23 pm

The New York Daily News reports on our first salvo: The National Organization for Marriage launched the first salvo this morning of its previously-promised $2 million campaign to defeat the seven state Senators who switched their votes to back same-sex marriage. Mailings are being sent to homes in the district of each senator comparing the […]

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NOM Launches Mailers Into The Districts of Seven GOP and Democratic Senators Who Betrayed Voters on Marriage; $2 Million Pledge Being Fulfilled

July 19, 2011 – 1:15 pm

This is the first step in what will be a sustained, determined effort to make sure the constituents of these cowardly Senators know what they have done.” –Brian Brown, President of NOM (WASHINGTON, D.C.) – The National Organization for Marriage (NOM) today began making good on its pledge to spend at least $2 million leading […]

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New Archbishop of Philadelphia: Marriage is "The Issue Of Our Time"

July 19, 2011 – 12:48 pm

Today Archbishop Charles Chaput of Denver was appointed to become the new Archbishop of Philadelphia. In a wide-ranging interview with the journalist John Allen, he is asked about his views on gay marriage: This is the issue of our time. The church understands marriage as a unique relationship, with a unique definition, which is the […]

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Rudy Giuliani to GOP: Accept SSM, Even If It's Wrong!

July 19, 2011 – 12:00 pm

Really, Rudy? Rudy Giuliani, always a critic of his party’s social agenda, urged Republicans to “move on” from social issues after New York State’s recent approval of gay marriage. “I think that marriage should be between a man and woman, but I think that the Republican Party would be well advised to get the heck […]

Posted in Election Watch 2012, Marriage Election Watch, New York, Same Sex Marriage | Comments (24)

What They Spent to Pass SSM in NY, and Where

July 19, 2011 – 11:30 am

This page represents only the portion that the law requires be dubbed “lobbying” … and it amounts to $1,816,979.00.

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New Attacks on Bachmann in Conservative Media Portray Migraines as Mental Illness

July 19, 2011 – 10:30 am

The attacks on Bachmann keep multiplying. This one –“Stress-related condition ‘incapacitates’ Bachmann”– is weird. The opening paragraphs suggest the reporter has intelligence that Michele Bachmann has a mental illness and pops mood-altering substances. Turns out to be she suffers from migraines. Apparently anti-Bachmann forces have begun to realize that attacking her for being pro-life and […]

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Sen Diaz: Threats to Prosecute Town Clerks Who Object to SSM an Outrage

July 19, 2011 – 10:00 am

New York Senator Ruben Diaz comes out swinging: Since when do district attorneys decide to pick and choose which “official misconduct” should be prosecuted as a criminal offense? New York State can’t even sustain a conviction against former Republican Senator Joseph Bruno for official misconduct when he was charged with taking huge financial favors to […]

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NOM Optimistic About Winning in Maine if SSM Brought to Popular Vote Again

July 19, 2011 – 9:30 am

NOM Chairman Maggie Gallagher in the Associated Press on the possibility of a 2012 marriage vote in Maine: The National Organization for Marriage, which opposes gay marriage, isn’t saying how much money would be needed to get out its message. But Maggie Gallagher, NOM’s chairman and co-founder, said raising money for Maine wouldn’t be a […]

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Matthew Franck On How The Culture is Failing Young People On Marriage

July 19, 2011 – 9:00 am

In this article adapted from remarks he recently gave before the Love & Fidelity Network, Prof. Franck talks about how we are failing to transmit healthy marital and sexual norms to the next generation (we focus on the marital norms): In these dystopian societies [described by Plato and Huxley], everything about human sexuality, the complementarity […]

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Did Sen. Huntley Flip Her Vote To Avoid Investigation by NY's Pro-SSM Attorney General?

July 19, 2011 – 8:30 am

The New York Post points out that Sen. Shirley Huntley –who flipped on gay marriage this year– is being investigated by NY Attorney General Eric Schneiderman (an outspoken proponent of SSM) over this: State Sen. Shirley Huntley (D-Queens) founded The Parent Workshop, to which she steered $30,000. And between 1996 and 2008, she and Cook […]

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Long Island Catholic Newspaper: Grisanti "Took the Catholic" Out of Vote

July 19, 2011 – 8:00 am

From the Long Island Catholic (the official newspaper for the Catholic diocese of Rockville Center): New York State Senator Mark Grisanti ran as a Catholic Republican opponent of same-sex “marriage” in 2010. In June 2011, he became a key vote ensuring its passage, telling a local newspaper: “If I take the Catholic out of me, […]

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Dan Savage, Leading Gay Sex Ethicist: "I Wish GOP Were All F-ing Dead"

July 18, 2011 – 2:50 pm

Savage walked his comment back in a later blog post, but on national TV this is what he said: Friday’s “Real Time” on HBO contained some of the most vile political talk ever broadcast on national television. In one panel segment, gay sex advice columnist Dan Savage said of Republicans, “I wish they were all […]

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60 Judges Promise to Marry Gay Couples, as Marriage Clerks Step Down Under Threat of Criminal Prosecution

July 18, 2011 – 2:46 pm

The New York Law Journal reports: Almost 60 judges in New York City have volunteered to help remove the last legal roadblock to the immediate weddings of gay and lesbian couples once they finally are recognized by the state on a Sunday in 10 days, court officials said yesterday. …Same-sex marriage “has been a long […]

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What NY Sen. Alesi Left Out: Priest Who 'Embraced' Him for SSM Vote is Excommunicated

July 18, 2011 – 2:40 pm

Via LifeSiteNews: When New York state Senator James Alesi announced to gay “marriage” supporters recently that his priest “embraced” him at mass after he cast his vote for gay “marriage,” he failed to mention one important point – his priest and his religious community have been excommunicated from the Catholic Church. However, the New York […]

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