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In Focus: Religious clubs face discrimination, even on public campuses

April 14, 2011 – 2:07 pm

Deseret News in Utah reports: In the spring of 2004, Dina Haddad went to an administrator at Hastings, a law school in San Francisco, to get approval for a new campus club. Haddad was the vice president of the Hastings chapter of the Christian Legal Society — a national group of Christian lawyers, judges and […]

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RI Bishop Tobin says Church open to reciprocal benefits, but opposes redefining marriage

April 14, 2011 – 2:03 pm

GoLocalProv believes it has discovered a new strain of Catholic teaching. Sigh. Not all rights and benefits are marital benefits, and Catholic Church leaders have always been willing to find ways to provide some practical benefits that do not compromise marriage or moral teachings on sex. Reciprocal beneficiaries was pioneered, with the consent of the […]

Posted in Catholic Church, Rhode Island, Same Sex Marriage | Comments (14)

Breaking News: Virginia AG Cuccinelli Advises Proposed Adoption Regs Illegal

April 14, 2011 – 11:04 am

From the Washington Post: Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli II has advised a state board that it cannot impose new regulations that some argue would for the first time allow gay couples to adopt children in Virginia. Cuccinelli’s office said in a memo dated Tuesday that the proposal to be considered by the State Board of […]

Posted in Religious Liberty, Virginia | Comments (7)

Twin Lessons: Have More Kids. Pay Less Attention to Them.

April 14, 2011 – 10:37 am

Bryan Caplan is a Professor of Economics at George Mason University, the author of “Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids: Why Being a Great Parent Is Less Work and More Fun Than You Think” and a father of twins. He writes in the Wall Street Journal: But twin research has another far more amazing lesson: With a […]

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Ed Whelan on Vaughn Walker’s Continuing Defiance on Prop 8 Trial Recordings

April 14, 2011 – 10:34 am

Ed Whelan is the President of the Ethics and Public Policy Center. He writes in NRO’s Bench Memos: One of the clear early signs of former district judge Vaughn Walker’s determined malfeasance in the anti-Prop 8 case was his resort to procedural shenanigans and outright illegality in furtherance of his fervent desire to broadcast the trial, in utter […]

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

NOM Responds to News Judge Walker Violated Judicial Rules, Released Video in Defiance of Supreme Court

April 13, 2011 – 4:23 pm

“What more evidence do we need that Judge Walker is a rogue judge with little regard for ordinary judicial process and fair play?” – Brian Brown, President (WASHINGTON, D.C.) – Prop 8 proponents today filed a motion in response to Judge Vaughn Walker’s illegal decision to release part of the videotapes of expert witnesses’ testimony […]

Posted in Press Releases, Same Sex Marriage | Comments (15)

Prop 8 Supporters Go After Judge Walker's Ilegal Release of Videotape

April 13, 2011 – 2:57 pm

Supporters of Proposition 8 in California have filed a motion in response to Judge Walker’s decision to show video recordings of the Prop 8 trial testimony which since have become public and widely disseminated. UPDATE: “NOM RESPONDS TO NEWS JUDGE VAUGHN WALKER BLATANTLY VIOLATED JUDICIAL RULES, RELEASED VIDEO IN DEFIANCE OF U.S. SUPREME COURT” A […]

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Chuck Colson and Timothy George on Catholics and Evangelicals Working Together for Religious Liberty

April 13, 2011 – 2:02 pm

Chuck Colson and Timothy George – two primary figures, along with NOM Founding Chairman Dr. Robert George – behind the Manhattan Declaration (which now has almost half a million signatures) write about the “improbably alliance” between Catholics, Evangelicals and other people of faith regarding issues of religious liberty: The most recent meeting of Evangelicals and […]

Posted in Marriage, Religious Liberty | Comments (5)

RI Minority Leader Lays Down Gauntlet to Speaker Fox: Let the House Vote!

April 13, 2011 – 12:29 pm

Speaker Gordon Fox, who promised to hustle a gay marriage bill through the House in February, is now dragging his heels and not permitting the House to vote on the bill. RI House Minority Leader Robert Watson, who opposes gay marriage, in a dramatic exchange yesterday, called Fox out on this point, arguing that the […]

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Video: Child Psychiatrist Tells CA Senate Committee How LGBT Courses Harm Kids

April 13, 2011 – 10:19 am

Dr. Miriam Grossman is a board certified child, adolescent, and adult psychiatrist. She lectures internationally and has first-hand experience working with children with SSA and transgender feelings. Recently she testified to the California Senate Judiciary Committee on SB48, which would introduce LGBT issues into schools beginning in kindergarten: The Senate Committee ignored her advice and passed the bill. It will next be debated by the full CA Senate.

Posted in California, Children, Education, Prop 8 | Comments (10)

Who's your daddy? It's complicated, says U. of Michigan study

April 13, 2011 – 10:13 am

Diane Swanbrow writes for the University of Michigan: The first national study of the prevalence of multiple partner fertility shows that 28 percent of all U.S. women with two or more children have children by more than one man. … having children by different fathers was more common among minority women, with 59 percent of African […]

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Rich Lowry on the social threat of a stratified marriage culture

April 13, 2011 – 9:00 am

Rich Lowry writes at NRO on America’s deepening (and troubling) class divide when it comes to marriage and other societal indicators: Murray identifies what he calls the “founding virtues,” such as marriage, industriousness, and religiosity, which have always been considered the social basis of self-government. He looks at whites aged 30–49 and divides them into […]

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Study: In India, Pre-Marital Chastity Remains the Norm

April 12, 2011 – 4:01 pm

Just one in six Indian men, and less than one out of 20 Indian women, have had premarital sex according to this survey of six provinces. That’s not what this media report highlighted, but it is what the report says.

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European Commission may force EU-wide recognition of SSM

April 12, 2011 – 3:15 pm

An alert from the European Dignity Watch: The European Commission is pushing for “automatic mutual recognition” of public documents in all EU Member States. Among them are marriage and adoption documents. Automatic recognition, as practical as it may seem at first a glance, entails a severe danger: that of a forced recognition of civil unions, […]

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Law School Dean: Judge Walker's admission warrants vacating Prop 8 ruling

April 12, 2011 – 12:27 pm

John C. Eastman is the Henry Salvatori Professor of Law & Community Service and former Dean at Chapman University School of Law. He is also the founding director of the Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence. He writes in the San Francisco Chronicle: … Walker’s admission [last week] requires that his decision in the case be vacated. […]

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