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Study Argues Tax/Spend Policies Less Important to Economy than Healthy Families

July 11, 2011 – 4:00 pm

A reminder that what we are fighting for –a healthy marriage culture– will help solve our nation’s economic woes as well: A new study from the Family Research Council argues that the health of the family is the single most important factor in the American economy. “The key investors in both physical and human capital […]

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Curt Smith to NY GOP: There's No Courage in Changing Gay-Marriage Vote

July 11, 2011 – 3:30 pm

Curt Smith, author and host of WXXI radio’s “Perspectives” show goes on to list some questions the media failed to ask during the debate over marriage in New York. Here’s a couple: 1) Traditional-only marriage has been accepted by, among others, Jesus, Washington, Lincoln, FDR, Winston Churchill, Charles De Gaulle, Hubert Humphrey and Martin Luther […]

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Gay Activists Organize Against Berlin's Incoming Archbishop

July 11, 2011 – 3:00 pm

From a Catholic Culture summary: Gay activists in Berlin are already mounting opposition to Archbishop-elect Rainer Maria Woelki, because of the prelate’s public statements against homosexuality. The new archbishop, who was appointed last week, will not be installed until August 27. But secular leaders in Berlin have questioned whether a Church leader who “openly has […]

Posted in Europe, Religious Liberty, Same Sex Marriage | Comments (9)

What Next After SSM? New York Archbishop Concerned Christians Will Be Sued

July 11, 2011 – 2:30 pm

Via LifeSiteNews: American Christians may one day find themselves facing legal penalties simply for believing marriage can only exist between a man and a woman, a fate already suffered by believers in other countries, said the leader of America’s most influential Catholic pulpit this week. Archbishop Timothy Dolan of New York reflected on his blogThursday […]

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Obama's DOJ Escalates Attack on DOMA: Says Motivated by "Animus" Towards Gays

July 11, 2011 – 2:00 pm

Via the AP, the strongest words we’ve seen yet from the Obama administration against anyone who disagrees with them about marriage. We wonder if the administration is comfortable with ascribing the motivations impugned outlined below to all the Democrats and President Bill Clinton who signed DOMA into law in 1996? In a strongly worded legal […]

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Prof. Michael Filozof on The Need For A Militant Conservative Movement

July 11, 2011 – 1:30 pm

Prof. Michael Filozof urges conservatives to become proactive instead of reactive to organized cultural pressure from the left: The political strategy of conservatives and Republicans for the last several decades has been purely reactionary — to wait for leftists in power to screw up, then reap the electoral rewards…But this strategy concedes the agenda to […]

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Erica Jong Asks in NYTimes: "Is Sex Passé?"

July 11, 2011 – 1:00 pm

Erica Jong asks if trends are changing among the next generation: While editing an anthology of women’s sexual writing called “Sugar in My Bowl” last year, I was fascinated to see, among younger women, a nostalgia for ’50s-era attitudes toward sexuality. The older writers in my anthology are raunchier than the younger writers. The younger […]

Posted in Culture, Marriage | Comments (18)

Prof. Robert George on Standing Up to Bullies: "It Always Works"

July 11, 2011 – 12:30 pm

Sheila Liaugminas on interviewing Prof. Robert George about what happened in New York: Prof. George was a guest on my radio show this week. He sounds the same in person as he does in print. Certain. Determined. Resolute. … Citizens have to be informed and engaged, George said sternly. And even though I say that […]

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Star Parker: A Few Rich Libertarians Help Undermine Freedom

July 11, 2011 – 12:15 pm

In TownHall: … Yet these same libertarians, who accept the gravity of changing the meaning of words in a document several hundred years old, in a blink of an eye use money and political power to change the meaning of a word thousands of years old. Not just any word. A word – marriage – central […]

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Video: Prof. Jeff Myers Explains Why Obama Still Pays Marriage Lip Service

July 11, 2011 – 12:00 pm

This FoxNews Studio B segment is from a few days ago but features some interesting points by Prof. Jeff Myers: Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com

Posted in Election Watch 2012, Marriage Election Watch, Same Sex Marriage | Comments (1)

Tea Party Radio Gives "Tombstone Award" to 4 GOP Sens. Who Defected on Marriage

July 11, 2011 – 11:30 am

In Tea Party Review magazine: This week’s TOMBSTONE AWARD goes to the actions of four Republican state senators in New York. Each week Doc Holliday issues a TOMBSTONE of the Week Award that goes to an action, deed or words that deserve to be placed six-feet under the ground. You can hear the award and […]

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Casey Anthony, Marriage, and the Child Abuse Epidemic

July 11, 2011 – 11:00 am

The headlines have been full this week with the news of the Casey Anthony verdict. Carolyn Moynihan writes in Mercator.net about the increased risks to children when a marriage culture breaks down: Casey Anthony is a single mother, living with her own parents, the father of her child nowhere to be seen, although there have […]

Posted in Children, Culture, Parenting | Comments (7)

Minnesota for Marriage Coalition Reacts to NY SSM: "This is Exactly Why We Need the Constitutional Amendment"

July 11, 2011 – 10:00 am

Via their press release: The Minnesota for Marriage Coalition, a broad-based group of community and faith leaders and organizations supporting next year’s vote to preserve the definition of marriage as only one man and one woman in Minnesota’s constitution, reacted [June 26] to the narrow vote by the Legislature in the State of New York […]

Posted in Marriage, Minnesota, New York, Same Sex Marriage | Comments (3)

Post-Marriage Pledge, Bachmann Surges into Iowa Lead

July 11, 2011 – 9:40 am

The mainstream media did its best to hurt Bachmann for signing the Iowa Family Leader’s marriage pledge, but it doesn’t look like its working: A new poll of Iowa Republicans released Sunday night suggested that Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) enjoys momentum in the race to win the state’s caucuses. Twenty-five percent of likely Republican caucusgoers […]

Posted in Election Watch 2012, Iowa, Marriage Election Watch, Same Sex Marriage | Comments (4)

What to Make of the DOJ's Mixed Messages on DOMA?

July 11, 2011 – 9:30 am

This news (via CitizenLink) became public a little over a week ago but still remains relevant: In a move that caught same-sex marriage advocates by surprise, the U.S. Trustee for the Bankruptcy Court, a division of the Department of Justice (DOJ), has filed notice that it intends to appeal a June 13 federal bankruptcy court ruling striking […]

Posted in DOMA, Same Sex Marriage | Comments (2)
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