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Netherlands: Equality Trumps Conscience for Marriage Commissioners

June 6, 2011 – 8:00 am

In LifeSiteNews: Marriage commissioners in a district of Amsterdam will be forced to undergo annual evaluations to ensure they support same-sex “marriage” after revelations that two commissioners had refused to officiate at the ceremonies. Since 2007, the government in Amsterdam’s Nieuw-West district has only employed commissioners who agree to perform same-sex “marriages,” and officials apparently […]

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Another Defender of Sen. Rev. Diaz Steps Forward

June 5, 2011 – 5:00 pm

According to the NY Daily News: Bronx Assemblyman Michael Benedetto, who supports legal gay marriage, sort of inserted himself as a referee, issuing a statement about the tone of the argument between Diaz and advocates: “The state legislature has been presented with an important and historic issue and whenever topics of such import fall before […]

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Will 5 Republicans Vote for SSM in New York?

June 5, 2011 – 4:50 pm

Saratoga’s State Sen. Roy McDonald remains undecided, as the msm focused on a billboard asking him to vote yes. Another of the “undecideds” State Sen. Kemp Hannon, has moved into the “no” column, according to Your News Now. With just seven undecided votes left, YNN says, “at least five Republicans would need to join with […]

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Marriage Equality Rhode Island Demands Religious Liberty Protections Be Stripped From Civil Unions Bill

June 5, 2011 – 4:17 pm

In the Providence Journal: Gay-rights groups such as Marriage Equality Rhode Island and Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders said a House floor amendment that added religious protections goes further than similar measures in any other state. MERI, in a statement issued Thursday, said the bill would “legalize discrimination” and enable “faith-backed health-care organizations to […]

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New Study: Marriage Culture Key to Economy

June 5, 2011 – 1:43 pm

In the Washington Times: America’s economic revival is tied to the revival of a strong marriage culture, according to a new study. Compared with other family arrangements, marriage offers the best economic outcomes for men, women, children and the nation, said Patrick Fagan, head of the Marriage and Religion Research Institute at the Family Research Council (FRC), […]

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Changing Attitudes Among Midwives About Marriage and Childbearing?

June 3, 2011 – 10:00 am

Christelyn Karazin notes at Family Scholars that one South Carolina midwife’s efforts to reduce the out-of-wedlock birthrate in the black community are being challenged by the elites, but supported by other midwives: … what gave me pause and encouragement, were the comments from 122 women who weighed in on Urban Midwifery. From the sounds of […]

Posted in Culture, Marriage, Parenting | Comments (4)

Canadian Ethicist: With SSM, Genderless Parenting; Now, Genderless Children?

June 3, 2011 – 9:00 am

Prof. Margaret Somerville, founder of the McGill Centre for Medicine, Ethics and Law writes in the Vancouver Sun about the “genderless child” being raised by parents in Canada: With same-sex marriage, we saw the advent of arguments for “genderless parenting” – the idea that all a child needs is love and it’s irrelevant whether the loving persons […]

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Chilean President Offers "De Facto Union" Legislation

June 2, 2011 – 10:17 am

Will offering benefits to unmarried opposite-sex couples hurt marriage as a social institution? If the experience of France is any guide (see this NYTimes treatment), the answer is yes. Following months of resistance, Chilean president Sebastian Piñera capitulated last Friday to the demands of [pro-SSM] organizations and agreed to introduce legislation to create “civil unions” […]

Posted in Same Sex Marriage, South America | Comments (4)

Second Legal Ethics Expert: Judge Walker Ought To Have Disclosed His Partnership with a Man

June 2, 2011 – 10:07 am

In the LATimes: New York University Law School Professor Stephen Gillers said that as long as Walker did not wish to marry his partner in California, there was no reason to disqualify him from the case. But Gillers said Walker should have disclosed his situation prior to trial. “A judge should always disclose facts that […]

Posted in California, Prop 8, Same Sex Marriage | Comments (8)

Election Watch 2012: Herman Cain Moves Up in Iowa, Tied with Palin; Will Jim DeMint Enter the Race?

June 2, 2011 – 9:51 am

Steven Ertelt at LifeNews: A new poll in Iowa following the departures of Mike Huckabee and Donald Trump as potential Republican presidential candidates shows former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney leading in Iowa among Republican voters. The Public Policy Polling institute survey has businessman Herman Cain and former governor Sarah Palin tied for second at 15 percent, […]

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Video: Do Activists Have a Right to Teach Your Grade Schoolers that Boys can be Girls?

June 2, 2011 – 9:00 am

In this Fox News exchange between Brad Dacus (Pacific Justice Institute), and Shannon Price Minter (Legal Director for the Center for Lesbian Rights), Minter is uncompromisingly in favor of teaching kids this program over their parents objections because, he says “It’s not okay to teach children to hate.” No, it’s not. And it’s not okay […]

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Holloway on SSM and Human Fulfillment

June 2, 2011 – 8:00 am

Carson Holloway writes at Public Discourse that “Public recognition of unions contrary to human flourishing will hurt, not help, the happiness of those who participate in them”: It is not clear […] that the quest for same-sex marriage offers any substantive good to those on whose behalf it is so insistently demanded. Put another way, […]

Posted in Culture, Law, Marriage, Same Sex Marriage | Comments (4)

New Poll: PPP Finds Minnesotans Divided on SSM

June 1, 2011 – 4:55 pm

Here are the two questions they asked: Do you think same-sex marriage should be legal or illegal? Legal……………………………………………………… 46% Illegal …………………………………………………….. 45% Not sure …………………………………………………. 9% Should the Minnesota Constitution be amended to provide that only a union of one man and one woman shall be valid or recognized as a marriage in Minnesota? Yes………………………………………………………… […]

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Hey, Mayor Bloomberg: "Dallas-Fort Worth Again Leads Nation in Job Growth"

June 1, 2011 – 4:43 pm

The Star-Telegram reports: Dallas-Fort Worth and Houston continue to lead the nation’s largest metro areas in new jobs and the rate of job growth compared with a year earlier, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said Tuesday. … Job growth was up 2.9 percent, compared with 1.1 percent for the U.S. North Texas has long been […]

Posted in New York, Same Sex Marriage | Comments (9)

Network TV: One Long Unpaid Political Commericial for Liberalism?

June 1, 2011 – 4:38 pm

The Hollywood Report: Some of TV’s top executives from the past four decades may have gotten more than they bargained for when they agreed to be interviewed for a politically charged book that was released Tuesday, because video of their controversial remarks will soon be hitting the Internet. The book makes the case that TV […]

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