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Gwyneth Paltrow: What's Wrong with Second Graders Learning About Homosexuality?

LifeSiteNews: Actress Gwyneth Paltrow, a top gay rights proponent in Hollywood, is thrilled that her second-grade daughter is learning about homosexuality. In her newsletter GOOP, the Iron Man actress says that when her daughter came home with news about a classmate’s lesbian parents, she was enthusiastic. “When my daughter came home from school one day saying […]

NYPost Editors: Marriage Should Be a Matter of Conscience

The editors of the New York Post come out in favor of retaining the commonsense definition of marriage: Gov. Cuomo yesterday ratcheted up the pressure in favor of same-sex marriage in New York, sending his own bill to the Legislature while arm-twisting lawmakers on its behalf. That’s a pity. Sure, politics drives everything in Albany, […]

GetReligion on NY Daily News "Demonizing the Opposition" to SSM

We couldn’t take the recent NY Daily News hit piece on protectors of marriage seriously enough to respond, but Mollie at Get Religion points out some of the obvious ironies in it: You know a story is going to be bad when the headline is “National Organization for Marriage crusading against gay nuptials in NY.” […]

Daily Caller Op-Ed: As New York Economy Tanks, Social Re-Engineering Cuomo & Bloomberg's Top Priority

Brian Raum, senior counsel of the Alliance Defense Fund, writes in the Daily Caller: As the battle for marriage heats up again in New York, so does the tired rhetoric. Gov. Andrew Cuomo has stated that marriage redefinition is one of his top two priorities, and for Mayor Michael Bloomberg, it’s priority number one.  While […]

Breaking News: French Parliament Rejects Same-Sex Marriage

Via France24: France’s lower house of parliament Tuesday rejected a bill that would have allowed gays to marry. The house, dominated by the ruling right-wing UMP party, voted by 293 votes to 222 to block the bill, with most left-wing lawmakers backing it and most of the right opposed. “We are against homophobia but we […]

Another Republican Comes Out for Gay Marriage in NY

It looks like the religious liberty language is picking off some GOP votes. Redouble your efforts right now!

Federal Judge Sides With Judge Walker on Prop 8 Disclosure Question

The AP with the breaking news: A federal judge has upheld a gay judge’s ruling to strike down California’s same-sex marriage ban. Chief U.S. District Judge James Ware said Tuesday that former Chief Judge Vaughn Walker did not have to divulge whether he wanted to marry his own gay partner before he declared last year […]

Judge Who Will Rule on Prop 8 Question Contrived Tale About Brother's Assault

Ed Whelan writes at NRO’s Bench Memos about another weird example of people making stuff up (is this a new trend?): By all accounts, it was clear from yesterday’s hearing that Chief Judge James Ware will deny Prop 8 proponents’ motion to vacate former district judge Vaughn Walker’s anti-Prop 8 judgment on account of Walker’s […]

Breaking News: NY Giants Hero David Tyree Stands Up for Marriage!

David Tyree was best known for the dramatic helmet catch during the winning touchdown drive (see video below) in the final minutes of the fourth quarter of the NY Giants’ Super Bowl victory over the previously undefeated New England Patriots. Today, during another dramatic fourth quarter drive for victory, we are told David Tyree showed […]

Social Workers Favor Gay Couples over Married Couples?

In a New York Times report that gay adoption is generally on the rise, this story sticks out: “Matt and Ray Lees, a couple in Worthington, Ohio, said they were selected as parents for a 7-month-old, ahead of several heterosexual couples, in part because they had successfully adopted two older children.” So a couple with […]

Human Events: Fake Lesbian Blogger Epidemic Widens

John Hayward writes (and satirizes): Yesterday I wrote about Tom McMaster, a 40-year-old married college student living in Edinburgh who pretended to be “A Gay Girl In Damascus,” who was purportedly a lesbian Syrian blogger who got nabbed by Bashar Assad’s secret police. McMaster’s hoax was uncovered by Paula Brooks, an American lesbian who owned a […]

Dan Savage Says Kids In Religious Homes Are His Target

Dan Savage says his “It Gets Better” campaign is about eliminating bullying, then goes on to call Peggy Nance a “hateful s***”. What’s that promoting? LifeSiteNews: Peggy Nance of Concerned Women for America expressed outrage that the Fox network aired an “anti-gay bullying” advertisement, part of the “It Gets Better” campaign, during [American Idol]. … […]

Video: Will the Black Church Rise Up in New York For Marriage?

We shot this video at the Church of God convocation in the Bronx on May 28th with Rev. William Owens:

Weird News: "Lez Get Real" Editor Paula Brooks Confesses: He's a Married Man in Ohio

We’ve received a lot of particularly virulent criticism from this website. Turns out “Dr. Paula Brooks” is an avatar for an old white guy from Ohio, who has a wife, and is a retired military man.  Weird news via Slate: Bill Graber, a 58-year-old retired military man, admitted to the Washington Post that he had been […]

NY Archbishop Dolan on The True Meaning of Marriage

Archbishop Timothy Dolan writes on his personal blog today: The stampede is on.  Our elected senators who have stood courageous in their refusal to capitulate on the state’s presumption to redefine marriage are reporting unrelenting pressure to cave-in. The media, mainly sympathetic to this rush to tamper with a definition as old as human reason […]