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New Poll: 65%-22% Americans Reject Teaching Gay Subjects in Grade School

May 3, 2011 – 4:24 pm

Bob Unruh reports: An overwhelming majority of Americans say elementary school is no place to promote the homosexual lifestyle, and even among liberals there is the strong belief that such lessons should be left outside the door of the classroom, according to a new poll. The results are from a WND/WENZEL Poll conducted for WND […]

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Breaking News: MN House Civil Law Committee Approves Marriage Amendment!

May 3, 2011 – 3:54 pm

The Minnesota House Civil Law Committee has approved the marriage amendment bill on a party-line 10-7 vote, as local MN press reports. The bill will next travel to the Ways and Means committee of the Minnesota House, where it scheduled to be debated at 6pm tomorrow. Stay tuned for more from us!

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MN Senate Judiciary Committee Passes Marriage Amendment 8-4!

May 2, 2011 – 8:35 am

Great news from late last week – the Minnesota Senate Judiciary Committee approved the marriage amendment bill 8-4 on a party line vote. Glen Stubbe with the Star Tribune snapped a photo of Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse testifying in favor of the amendment before it passed (with one of the bill’s sponsors, Senator Warren Limmer […]

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Minnesota Bishops Announce Support of Marriage Amendment

May 2, 2011 – 8:26 am

The Catholic Church in Minnesota gets behind the new Marriage Amendment: “Minnesotans Should Decide the Future of Marriage in their State” Marriage between one man and one woman sustains our civil society and promotes the common good. That is the view of Minnesota’s Roman Catholic bishops, who were encouraged today by the introduction of legislation […]

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Keith Fournier: Attacks on Paul Clement a Manifestation of Bullying

May 2, 2011 – 8:00 am

Deacon Keith Fournier writes at Catholic Online: The effort to force Paul Clement to withdraw from legal representation in defense of Marriage is one more manifestation of the growth of bullying in our culture. Only this variety does not receive much attention in the main stream media. It is the bullying of the Homosexual Equivalency […]

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The Sowell of Wisdom: A Black Conservative's Insights into Gay Marriage

May 1, 2011 – 8:00 am

Thomas Sowell, a black, Harlem-raised conservative scholar and pundit, is one of America’s finest commentators today. Here are passages from some of his writings on the subject of gay marriage: From “The Notion of ‘Gay Marriage’ Is a Product of Sloppy Thinking,” March 24, 2000: Why is marriage a government concern in the first place?… […]

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The Argument for Polygamy

April 30, 2011 – 9:00 am

Russell Nieli, who has a PhD in politics from Princeton, writes in the Public Discourse about “learning from a religious skeptic’s rejection of polygamy and easy divorce”: While often hostile to the Calvinist Christianity in which he was reared, David Hume’s essay “Of Polygamy and Divorces” offers a vigorous and well-argued defense of marriage arrangements […]

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Research Roundup: Premarital Teen Sex Dramatically Increases Risk of Divorce for Men and Women

April 30, 2011 – 8:00 am

From Glen Stanton at Focus on the Family: Since 1991, there have a been a number of good, population-based studies exploring the connection between premarital sexual activity and later elevated risk of divorce. Just recently, another good study was published on the topic, prompting me to do a little research round-up/summary of the nice handful […]

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VA's Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli Drops King & Spalding Over DOMA Debacle

April 29, 2011 – 4:00 pm

The Washington Examiner got the scoop: Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli has terminated his office’s relationship with King & Spalding, the Atlanta law firm that abrubtly dropped the U.S. House of Representatives as a client for purposes of defending the Defense of Marriage Act. “King & Spalding’s willingness to drop a client, the U.S. House […]

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Both MERI and Catholic Church Oppose RI Civil Union Bill

April 29, 2011 – 4:00 pm

It doesn’t appear to offer legislators much of a compromise at this point: “Catholic Diocese Asks Assembly to Kill Civil Unions” (ProJo) “Meri States Strong Opposition to Civil Unions” (MERI press release)

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Tired Meme Alert Spreading: New York

April 29, 2011 – 3:51 pm

This in the New York Times: Two dozen high-profile New York business leaders plan to release an open letter on Friday urging state lawmakers to legalize same-sex marriage, arguing that the measure would help companies attract and retain employees. We’ve already responded to this meme when it popped up in Rhode Island, Indiana, and –most […]

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WaPo Columnist to HRC: Strong-Arming Lawyers Isn't an Acceptable Tactic

April 29, 2011 – 1:40 pm

Ruth Marcus, who opposes DOMA, writes in the Washington Post that she opposes HRC’s intimidation tactics more: It’s easy to beat up on a big corporate law firm for acting cravenly in its financial self-interest. In the case of King & Spalding, the Atlanta firm that abruptly reneged on its commitment to defend the Defense of […]

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Can SSM Pass the NY House?

April 29, 2011 – 1:36 pm

The Albany Times Union raises the question. SSM advocates say yes, for sure. But then again, they said that about the Rhode Island House … and the Maryland House, too. And there are new factors to consider this year: “There’s a sense that because it’s passed three times, it’s a given it’ll pass again,” said Dennis […]

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Did Speaker Fox have the Votes in RI?

April 29, 2011 – 1:34 pm

House Majority Leader Nicholas Mattiello echoes Speaker Gordon Fox and says no the votes for gay marriage weren’t there, even in the house, but several in leadership disagree, as ProJo reports: House Majority Leader Nicholas Mattiello, D-Cranston, echoing Fox, said it was questionable whether the votes were there in the House for a gay-marriage bill. […]

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Matthew Franck on The King & Spalding Skedaddle

April 29, 2011 – 1:28 pm

In the Public Discourse Matt Franck discusses the weird truth revealed by this incident: it now takes courage to stand up not only for marriage, but for basic norms of institutional integrity: … intimidation—“mau-mauing the flak-catchers,” Tom Wolfe memorably called it—is now the default tactic of same-sex marriage advocates. What else, for instance, explains the […]

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