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CEO of UK Christian Medical Group: "I’m coming out as a 'homoskeptic'"

June 16, 2011 – 8:00 am

Dr. Peter Saunders argues that “dictionaries need a new word to describe disagreement with some of the key precepts of the gay lobby”: For many people “homophobia” is actually about “having a fear of being accused of being bigoted, prejudiced or discriminating against homosexual people”. This fear, which is increasingly common, causes people to take […]

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Does Herman Cain Want to Protect Marriage?

June 16, 2011 – 7:00 am

So far the only answers he have given are short and Obama-like. How would he protect marriage, or the state’s right to protect marriage, in the face of a federal court decision ordering gay marriage? He has to do better than that or Michelle Bachman is going to blow right past him in Iowa. Watch […]

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Maggie's Column -- Giants' David Tyree's Last-Minute Drive For N.Y. Marriage

June 15, 2011 – 8:53 pm

NOM Chairman Maggie Gallagher’s latest column (watch NOM’s exclusive interview with Tyree here): Former New York Giants wide receiver David Tyree is a giant of a man. Tyree is most famous for making arguably the greatest catch in NFL history in 2008’s Super Bowl XLII — leaping up and pinning the ball against his helmet […]

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What Urgent Necessity? Gov. Cuomo Waives 3-Day Notice Requirement

June 15, 2011 – 8:43 pm

New York’s law is designed to make sure legislators and the public have a chance–at least 72 hours–to review bills before they are voted on: 2006 New York Code – Manner of passing bills; message of necessity for immediate vote. § 14. No bill shall be passed or become a law unless it shall have […]

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Law Prof. on NY SSM Bill's Religious Exemption Language

June 15, 2011 – 8:34 pm

Via Capitol Confidential: Robin Wilson, a law professor at Washington & Lee in Virginia, drafted a letter to Sen. Greg Ball, a Putnam County Republican who is concerned about religious organizations being forced into recognizing, comparing New York’s pending same-sex marriage bill with laws enacted in other states. Here it is: SSM Bill Analysis

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NY Senate Punts on Marriage Vote for Today

June 15, 2011 – 8:14 pm

Gay marriage in New York is *not* a done deal! From Gay City News: The New York State Senate Republican majority conference emerged from a closed-door meeting today having failed to reach agreement on whether to allow a floor debate and vote on Governor Andrew Cuomo’s marriage equality bill. “We have reached no conclusion,” Dean Skelos, the […]

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Gay Blogger on NY Post Editorial: "The Entire Thing Seems to Have Been Ghost-Written by Maggie Gallagher"

June 15, 2011 – 8:05 pm

That’s what Joe My God says about the NY Post editorial opposing same-sex marriage. Their editorial is good, we agree! But just to be clear, NOM’s Chairman didn’t ghost-write it.

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NOM's Warning To GOP Senators: A Vote For This Bill Will Endanger Catholic Adoption Agencies, Religious Liberty

June 15, 2011 – 1:16 pm

“Greg Ball promised a bill would be dead without genuine religious liberty protection,” said Brian Brown, president of the National Organization for Marriage (NOM). “We’re counting on Senate leadership to deliver on that promise.” NEW YORK – NOM released its legal analysis of the hastily added religious liberty provision in Andrew Cuomo’s same sex marriage […]

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Report: NY SSM Vote May Be Postponed Until Friday

June 15, 2011 – 1:12 pm

So says the NY Daily News — all the more reason to keep the pressure up in the meantime: Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos said if there is a gay marriage vote — and that will be decided by the conference tomorrow morning in a closed-door session — it will likely be on Friday, our […]

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NRO Interviews Edward Mechmann on the NY Marriage Fight

June 15, 2011 – 10:50 am

Edward T. Mechmann is a lawyer who deals with public-policy issues for the Archdiocese of New York as assistant director of its Family Life/Respect Life Office. An excerpt from his interview with Kathryn Lopez: LOPEZ: Did it surprise you that one of the Democrats who switched yesterday, Carl Kruger, announced, “What we’re about to do […]

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Will Skelos Permit a Vote? Mike Long Ramps Up "Republicans Who Vote 'Yes' Will Have to Answer for It in 2012"

June 15, 2011 – 10:45 am

From The New York morning roundup from City Hall and The Capitol: Momentum may be building toward a vote on same-sex marriage, but the Conservative Party is letting it be known that Republicans who vote “yes” will have to answer for it in 2012. An operative close to party leadership texted to say: “The Gov […]

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David Tyree's Other Moment of Glory--See NOM Interview David Tyree on Marriage!

June 15, 2011 – 10:15 am

ESPN says Tyree’s “leaping hands-clasped-in-prayer, football-atop-helmet snare of a Manning third-down heave” made Tyree “a Super Bowl legend.” “I never said that I was the best receiver or, you know, the greatest receiver,” the now-retired Tyree, 31, recalled one morning last August in his New Jersey home. He works primarily with the International Children’s Support Foundation […]

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