Supporters of marriage, it’s time to get involved and stand up for marriage in New York! Today, New Yorker’s Family Research Foundation announces its “Mayday for Marriage” RV tour. The Mayday for Marriage tour departs Friday, May 6th, and after stopping in places like Buffalo, Rochester, Staten Island, Long Island, and many others, the tour […]
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Broken Marriages Draining State Tax Coffers
May 5, 2011 – 12:13 pm
Via Deseret News: Utah taxpayers spend about $276 million on the effects of divorce and out-of-wedlock childbirth. But while there are effective tools to strengthen marriage and families, those who statistically need help most are the least likely to seek it out, experts say. “Those who are younger, less educated and less religious feel that […]
Gay Rights Groups Seek to Exclude Religious Adoption Agencies
May 5, 2011 – 11:34 am
Rhode Island might want to take note of the troubles a CU billl–without adequate religious liberty protection–is already causing in Illinois: Illinois begins allowing gay civil union next month. Catholic adoption agencies will then face a choice of working with gay couples or sending them to other groups. If they turn away gay couples, they […]
WaPo Legal Expert: Prop 8 Brief Challenging Walker "Skillfully Done"
May 5, 2011 – 11:31 am
Kudos to Cooper & Kirk! This from the WaPo: ProtectMarriage.com, in its court filing, argues that Walker had a responsibility to disclose his relationship before the trial. “It is important to emphasize at the outset that we are not suggesting that a gay or lesbian judge could not sit on this case,” the group’s attorneys […]
Breaking News: MERI Spokesman Resigns
May 5, 2011 – 11:14 am
Coming hard on the heels of the resignation of Marriage Equality Rhode Island’s executive director Kathy Kushnir, MERI spokesman Bill Fischer’s resignation bespeaks a genuine disarray among gay marriage advocates in Rhode Island. Blowback for opposing civil unions? Fischer said that while there is “a lot of finger-pointing at Gordon Fox,” the openly gay Speaker of […]
Newsmakers Video: Chris Plante on the Failure of SSM in RI
May 5, 2011 – 11:01 am
Last Friday NOM-RI’s Christopher Plante was interviewed on Projo’s Newsmakers TV segment in the wake of the failure of SSM in Rhode Island: Good job, Chris!!
Wolfe on the Abolition of Marriage
May 5, 2011 – 8:00 am
Christopher Wolfe is an emeritus professor of political science at Marquette University and argues in the Public Discourse that “New conceptions of marriage threaten to make ‘traditional marriage’ not only unfashionable but also inaccessible”: One of the ways in which marriage can become unavailable to people is for the political community to offer people an institution called […]
Study: Want a Happier Marriage? Unrealistically Idealize Your Partner
May 5, 2011 – 8:00 am
By Dr. John Grohol, founder and Editor-in-Chief of PsychCentral: If ignorance is bliss, then delusion is even better — if you’re in a new marriage, anyways. So says new research from investigators at the University at Buffalo, who examined 193 newly-married couples over three years to see what kinds of variables might predict greater marital […]
Roundup: All Sides Defending Paul Clement's Courage
May 4, 2011 – 3:02 pm
Does Marriage Have a Right to A Lawyer? Here is a summary of recent public reaction to the campaign to force law firms to drop the defense of marriage, from all shades of the political spectrum. Gay Voices: Andrew Sullivan in The Atlantic: “When civil rights groups bully, they lose the moral high-ground. When you […]
Press Release: NOM-RI Critiques New Civil Union Legislation in Rhode Island
May 4, 2011 – 2:53 pm
“This bill is an engraved invitation for the courts to impose same-sex marriage.” – Chris Plante, executive director of the National Organization for Marriage – Rhode Island PROVIDENCE – The National Organization for Marriage – Rhode Island (NOM-RI) completely rejects as unacceptable legislation introduced Tuesday in the RI House of Representatives that would legalize civil-unions. […]
Maggie: Stunning Defeat of SSM in RI has Left Gay Activists in Disarray
May 4, 2011 – 10:56 am
From CitizenLink, a Focus on the Family affiliate: Even though Rhode Island House Speaker Gordon Fox was forced to abandon his plans to legalize same-sex marriage this session, he is not giving up. A Democrat and an open homosexual, is set to introduce […] a civil unions bill. But gay activists aren’t lining up behind him. […]
"A Map Which Should Make King & Spalding Shake" --Ripples Widen for Law Firm that Abandoned Client?
May 3, 2011 – 5:15 pm
William Jacobson at the Cornell Law School writing for the Legal Insurrection blog: King & Spalding dumped the House of Representatives as a client in DOMA litigation after coming under threatened protests and boycotts by groups opposed to DOMA. A key aspect of the threats was that protesters not only would protest King & Spalding, but would go […]
NRA Drops "Cut and Run" Law firm King & Spalding as Fallout Continues
May 3, 2011 – 5:04 pm
From the Legal Times blog: The National Rifle Association today is dropping King & Spalding as an outside counsel in the wake of the firm’s decision last month to withdraw from representing House Republicans in support of the Defense of Marriage Act. The NRA’s action follows a similar decision last week by Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli to end the […]
In the Face of Criticism, HRC Doubles Down
May 3, 2011 – 5:01 pm
This from a recent action alert of theirs:
Gay Marriage Advocate Lectures Rep. Shirley Huntley on What Rev. Martin Luther King Would Do
May 3, 2011 – 4:35 pm
Some SSM advocates give NY State Sen. Shirley Huntley a lecture on equality: “If she learned something she would have voted for equality, Dr. King supported equality for all people.” Calling her “ignorant” may not be the best way to win her vote, however.
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