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Pro-SSM Activists in NY Cancel Their Cable Over NOM's "Consequences" Ad

June 1, 2011 – 4:08 pm

Pro-SSM activists in New York are threatening TimeWarner Cable — which is airing ads on both sides of the marriage debate — because they are, well, airing both sides of the debate. The gay blog NCRM writes: Time Warner Cable, which operates in 28 states, last month ran ads in New York State from the […]

Posted in Free Speech, New York, Same Sex Marriage | Comments (13)

Video: Coming to a Public School Near YOU?

June 1, 2011 – 12:28 pm

Fox News covered a class full of kindergartners in California being taught that you can feel like a girl, feel like a boy, feel like both, or feel like neither. Watch it and tell us what you think: The group brought in to teach children these lessons (allegedly to prevent bullying) is called Gender Spectrum. […]

Posted in California, Children, Education, NOM on Facebook | Comments (76)

Conservative Minnesotan: "What [Pro-SSM] Activists Did After the Final [Vote] Was Despicable"

June 1, 2011 – 12:19 pm

Gary Gross at the Minneapolis Conservative Examiner writes: What [pro-SSM activists] did after the marriage amendment [passed] is described in this email: What became unnerving was that last night as we moved closer to the vote they got louder and faster. There was one woman who screeched every time the main doors opened. Made me […]

Posted in Civility, New York, Same Sex Marriage | Comments (12)

Bill Would Effectively Ban US Christian Adoption Agencies

June 1, 2011 – 12:06 pm

Rebecca Millette at LifeSiteNews: A bill reintroduced into the U.S. House of Representatives this month proposes federal-level punishment for states that ban homosexual couples and non-married individuals from adopting children.  Effectively, the bill would ban all Catholic and Christian adoption agencies or forbid them from acting on faith beliefs. Touted as the means for fixing […]

Posted in Adoption, Religious Liberty | Comments (15)

CNS: New Yorkers and Their Bishops Speak Up on Marriage

June 1, 2011 – 10:51 am

In the Catholic News Service: With a push on by supporters of same-sex “marriage” to legalize it in New York state, supporters of traditional marriage — including New York’s archbishop — are mounting their own campaigns to keep marriage as a union between one man and one woman. … On May 24, more than 350 people […]

Posted in Catholic Church, New York, Same Sex Marriage | Comments (1)

Breaking News: NY Daily News Covers Threats Against Sen. Diaz

June 1, 2011 – 10:12 am

Posted by the New York Daily News this morning: [Sen. Diaz’ effort to protect marriage] has also drawn the Pentecostal minister into venomous, online clashes and spawned death threats called into his office. Now a Brooklyn gay bar will host a “F— Ruben Diaz Festival.” “I have never preached hate,” Diaz told the Daily News. “They’re […]

Posted in Civility, New York, Same Sex Marriage | Comments (13)

Gay Press Reporting New Effort to Pass SSM in Chile

June 1, 2011 – 10:00 am

Nobody else seems to be paying attention yet but: Chile’s President Sebastian Pinera has announced that he will forward to parliament a bill that would grant both heterosexual and homosexual couples the ability to form civil unions, granting them many of the same rights as marriage. Pinera announced his intentions in an interview published Saturday […]

Posted in Same Sex Marriage, South America | Comments (1)

Video: T-Paw on Protecting Marriage as One Man and One Woman

June 1, 2011 – 9:00 am

He tells Greta Van Susteren (back in early March) that a marital relationship between a man and a woman is unique — via FoxNewsInsider:

Posted in Election Watch 2012, Same Sex Marriage | Comments (3)

The Rhetoric of Dignity in Justice Anthony Kennedy's Decisions

June 1, 2011 – 8:00 am

Noah Feldman at Harvard picks up on a trait of SCOTUS’ swing Justice: As it happens, some of Kennedy’s principles were on display in the California prisons case. The facts were simple: California’s prisons are at roughly 200 percent of capacity. Physically and mentally ill inmates sued for adequate services. Two courts over the last […]

Posted in Law | Comments (14)

Breaking News: MN Marriage Amendment Supporters File to Raise Funds

May 31, 2011 – 5:39 pm

Via the AP: Minnesota for Marriage filed late last week with the Minnesota Campaign Finance and Public Disclosure Board [to begin raising campaign donations]. The group includes the Minnesota Family Council and the Minnesota Catholic Conference and other religious and secular organizations. The Legislature voted earlier this month to put the definition of marriage in […]

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Bloomberg's Claim That "Global Competitiveness" Depends on SSM is Absurd

May 31, 2011 – 3:46 pm

Bloomberg doubles-down on the debunked claim that redefining marriage will stimulate state economies: The billionaire mayor also made the case for cash when it comes to same-sex couples. “As other states recognize the rights of same-sex couples to marry, we cannot stand by and watch. To do so would be to betray our civic values […]

Posted in New York, Same Sex Marriage | Comments (4)

Brad Pitt's New Answer for Why Get Married: The Kids Want You To.

May 31, 2011 – 2:30 pm

Family pressures to get married are nothing new, but in the new evolving “blue” family regime, the family pressures are coming not from parents, but from one’s own children: Why do people get married after having children? BBC posed this question last week, in light of British Labour leader Ed Miliband’s marriage to his long-time […]

Posted in Children, Culture, Marriage | Comments (9)

The New Definition of "Hate": Do Chick-Fil-A's Actions Qualify?

May 31, 2011 – 2:12 pm

Matthew Shaffer, a William F. Buckley Fellow at the National Review Institute, writes: … the facts show [Chick-Fil-A founder Samuel] Cathy to be a generous philanthropist who devotes millions to uncontroversial education charity; who gives some thousands more to Christian groups; who admits that for theological reasons he opposes the legal institution of same-sex marriage, […]

Posted in Civility, Free Speech | Comments (4)

Swedes Announce Campaign to Inform Women: Easier to Get Pregnant Under Age 35

May 31, 2011 – 1:50 pm

In The Local (Sweden’s news in English): Health authorities in southern Sweden are launching a public awareness campaign to encourage couples to have children sooner to combat the trend of women having their first child at an increasingly older age. According to statistics, 15 percent of all western couples are experiencing fertility problems, but Giwcerman […]

Posted in Culture, Europe | Comments (3)

Legal Ethics Scholar: Judge Walker Ought to Have Disclosed His Relationship

May 31, 2011 – 12:13 pm

In the LATimes: Chapman University Law Professor Ronald Rotunda said it was significant that Walker’s ruling noted that marriage has financial benefits and that Walker applied the ruling to all Californians rather than just the two same-sex couples who challenged Proposition 8. He said Walker could have avoided any possible conflict by limiting the ruling […]

Posted in California, Law, Prop 8, Same Sex Marriage | Comments (4)
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