The Arizona Republic reports: Married couples will have preference when it comes to adopting children under a new measure signed into law by Gov. Jan Brewer on Monday.Senate Bill 1188, which was sponsored by Sen. Linda Gray, R-Glendale, would require an adoption agency to give primary consideration to adoptive placement with a married man and […]
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Politifact RI rules "1,700 rights to marriage" claim "Barely True"
April 21, 2011 – 11:45 am
Back in 2004 Josh Baker at the Institute for Marriage and Public Policy examined the claim that civil marriage confers 1,138 distinct benefits and rights. Here was one of his conclusions: “… a preliminary analysis clearly shows that the claim there are “1,138 federal marriage benefits” is simply incorrect … Couples who marry expecting to […]
Dr. Morse at Stanford: "Marriage Without Adjectives"
April 21, 2011 – 11:30 am
The Stanford Daily reports: The newly established Stanford Anscombe Society (SAS) hosted its first event, titled “Marriage Without Adjectives,” on Tuesday night. Former Hoover Fellow Jennifer Roback Morse, the founder of the Ruth Institute, delivered the kickoff talk. … Morse’s 40-minute speech prompted an active question and answer session. She emphasized the importance of bringing the […]
Maggie in Salt Lake City
April 21, 2011 – 11:26 am
From Deseret News in Utah: When Maggie Gallagher first got involved in marriage issues it had nothing to do with gay marriage advocates or redefining marriage. She was on the road to recreate what she calls a “marriage culture” in America where more children have stable homes with loving mothers and fathers. But before long, […]
NY Senator Rev. Diaz Affronted by Gov. Cuomo's SSM Push During Holy Week
April 21, 2011 – 11:15 am
From the Office of New York State Senator Reverend Ruben Diaz, who says he is responding to news reports of Governor Andrew Cuomo’s “excessive pressure to mobilize elected officials” to legalize same-sex marriage in New York: “I am deeply offended that during this Holy Week, which is a most sacred time to millions of New […]
Breaking News: Victory for Religious Liberty in Virginia!
April 21, 2011 – 10:47 am
WMAL reports the breaking news: Private and church-run adoption agencies will not be required to serve same-sex couples in Virginia, for now. Gay rights activists asked the state Board of Social Services to require faith-based organizations such as Catholic Charities to permit gay couples to adopt children. Wednesday, the board overwhelmingly rejected the request, and […]
More on the Illinois Adoption Situation
April 21, 2011 – 10:15 am
Illinois State Sen David Koeler, one of the sponsors of the SSU bill said one thing when the impact of the bill on religious organizations was being debated before the vote: Koehler: “The intent [of the SSU bill] is not to at all impede the rights religious organizations have to carry out their duties and […]
Matthew Franck on the "Airtight Case for Vacating Walker’s Ruling"
April 21, 2011 – 10:00 am
Matthew Franck writes at NRO’s Bench Memos blog: That’s what I call Ed Whelan’s NRO article, on the implications under standard recusal norms of Judge Vaughn Walker’s recent disclosure that he has been in a relationship with a man for the last ten years. When I read Ed’s article, I thought, “I read a lot of news […]
10 years after SSM: "Dutch gays don't take advantage of opportunity to marry"
April 21, 2011 – 9:00 am
From the Global Post: Data from The Netherlands’ national statistics agency showed 15,000 gay couples have married since 2001 [when SSM was legalized]. That means just 20 percent of gay Dutch couples are married, compared to 80 percent of heterosexual couples, the agency says. Bergkamp sees three main reasons for the lack of nuptial enthusiasm among […]
Video: Full Q&A Session at Congressional DOMA Hearing
April 21, 2011 – 8:00 am
For the political junkies, here is the 32-minute video of the Q&A at last week’s Congressional hearing on DOMA, where Democrat and Republican members asked the panelists –Maggie Gallagher, Ed Whelan and Carlos Ball– questions:
Lawrence v. Texas for India?
April 21, 2011 – 7:00 am
India’s Supreme Court postponed a hearing on a Dehli High Court’s decision that decriminalized laws against homosexuality. The Court is expected to take up the issue over the summer. Abolishing legal restrictions on non-marital sex is obviously a much bigger deal in a country where just one in six Indian men, and less than one […]
Video: RI Speaker Fox Shuts Off Mic of Rep Asking Why SSM Is Holding Up the Budget
April 20, 2011 – 10:37 am
In Rhode Island, House Minority Leader Bob Watson thinks focusing on the serious budget issues facing the state is long overdue. When he tried to raise that point of view on the House floor, however, Speaker Gordon Fox had his microphone shut off. Leader Watson commented later: “I don’t like it when they turn my microphone off, […]
Catholic Church blasts Scottish SSM push
April 20, 2011 – 9:30 am
From the Christian Institute in the UK: Calls in Scotland for marriage to be fundamentally redefined … have come under fire from the Roman Catholic Church in Scotland. John Deighan, the Parliamentary Officer for the Roman Catholic Church in Scotland, asked: “Are we saying that, for the past few thousand years, Western civilisation has been wrong […]
Video of Maggie: Why DOMA is Good Policy for Society and the Next Generation
April 20, 2011 – 9:00 am
NOM Chairman Maggie Gallagher, in her testimony last Friday, examines why DOMA is important for establishing the sort of parameters most conducive to raising and educating the next generation well – one of the primary signs of a stable and flourishing society (read her written, more complete testimony here):
Video of Ed Whelan: Obama Politicized Department of Justice on DOMA
April 19, 2011 – 5:55 pm
Legal scholar and president of the Ethics and Public Policy Center Ed Whelan minced no words in his testimony last week as he summarized his extensive research and coverage of the Obama administration’s efforts to undermine DOMA. Whelan argues that the Obama administration is “eager to obscure from the American public its stealth campaign to […]
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