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Video of Iowa Marriage Rally: "Let Us Vote!"

March 22, 2011 – 1:06 pm

The Rev. Keith Ratliff addresses the crowd of 700 who recently rallied in Iowa for marriage shouting “Let Us Vote!”. Rev Ratliff says it is false to compare the push for SSM with the civil rights movement:

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Christopher Wolfe: What Marriage Has Become

March 22, 2011 – 1:04 pm

Christopher Wolfe, emeritus professor of Political Science at Marquette University, writes in the Public Discourse about the (past and future) threats to marriage: It has been said that marriage has survived many social events, including the sexual revolution, and it will survive gay marriage too. I don’t think marriage survived the sexual revolution. Every war […]

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Canadian PM warns Catholic high school which forbade gay-straight group

March 22, 2011 – 11:54 am

The Canadian Globe & Mail reports: A Mississauga Roman Catholic high school’s decision to bar students from launching a gay-straight alliance doesn’t gel with Ontario’s education policy on equity, Premier Dalton McGuinty said Monday. “We are making it perfectly clear to all our school boards, all our schools, all our principals, all our teachers and […]

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Australia PM (and atheist) Julia Gillard: Gay marriage against my upbringing

March 22, 2011 – 11:34 am

From the Australian Daily Telegraph: PRIME Minister Julia Gillard revealed yesterday that her personal stance against gay marriage was due to her conservative upbringing. Ms Gillard said she was “on the conservative side” of the gay marriage issue “because of the way our society is and how we got here”. “I think that there are […]

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Kathryn Lopez: Are we married to marriage?

March 22, 2011 – 11:29 am

Kathryn Lopez, editor-at-large of National Review Online, interviews Maggie about marriage and Maryland over at Headline Bistro: Gallagher, God bless her, was actually on the winning side of the marriage debate this month in Maryland. That’s because “gay marriage” is not inevitable, just as the sexual revolution did not irreversibly cast asunder what is true. Despite […]

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Study: Couples stay together because women want love and men like sex

March 22, 2011 – 11:25 am

From the UK Daily Mail: It’s a bit of a cliche that women settle down for love, and men for regular sex. But scientists are claiming it’s true. A study shows that women agree to cohabit because they view it as a stepping stone to marriage. Yet men move in hoping for more sex and […]

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Video: Marriage Rally in MD Disrupted by Gay Activists Shouting "God is Dead!"

March 22, 2011 – 10:30 am

WARNING: this video produced by TFP Student Action includes obscene gestures and disturbing content. The video was taken on March 3rd, roughly a week before the Maryland house voted to table SSM for this year.

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CA county clerk opts to defend marriage in Prop 8 challenge

March 22, 2011 – 9:00 am

Chuck Storey, a county clerk-recorder in El Centro, CA has asked the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to become the primary defendant in a lawsuit to uphold Proposition 8. He has home-front support, as the Associated Press reports: Storey’s supporters note that 69.7 percent of county voters approved Proposition 8 in 2008. They say […]

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Peter Wood: Debating Same-Sex Marriage

March 22, 2011 – 8:45 am

In this week’s Chronicle of Higher Education, President of the National Association of Scholars Peter Wood writes: …The debate over gay marriage ought to be considered one of the central social issues of our time, and indeed for many Americans—left and right—it is. It deals with a question of basic social relations within and between generations and […]

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What Next? Florist refuses flowers for SSM ceremony in Canada

March 22, 2011 – 8:00 am

What’s notable is the response from a local gay-rights activist, who had this to say: Eldon Hay, a United Church minister in Sackville and a well-known gay rights advocate, said he still sympathizes with the florist. “The shopkeeper has every right to her own convictions as long as she is a private citizen in her […]

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Openly Gay Congresswoman Proposes New Marriage Act

March 22, 2011 – 7:30 am

National Public Radio hosted this interview with Rep. Tammy Baldwin on her efforts to repeal DOMA in Congress: Wisconsin Congresswoman Tammy Baldwin is known for her liberal position on issues like the health care and federal spending. The Democrat is the only openly gay woman serving in Congress and is co-sponsoring legislation that would repeal […]

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Legal Experts: Polygamy Challenges Get Boost From SSM

March 22, 2011 – 7:00 am

The Washington Times reports: [Polygamy is] getting a legal boost from a strange bedfellow: the success of same-sex marriage. Gay-rights advocates cringe whenever the connection is made between same-sex and plural marriage, but more than a few legal analysts say the recent gains posted by gay marriage in the courts and state legislatures cannot help but […]

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Freakonomics: Stay-at-Home Mom Knows Best?

March 21, 2011 – 3:52 pm

Via the blog Freakonomics, which writes about “The hidden side of everything”: Just how important is Mom during a child’s first year of life?  A new working paper by the economists Pedro Carneiro, Katrine V. Løken, and Kjell G. Salvanes exploits a recent reform in Norway to answer that question.  The reform, which increased paid and unpaid maternity […]

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NYT: Study Undercuts View of College as a Place of Same-Sex Experimentation

March 21, 2011 – 3:44 pm

Scholar: “A lot of data shows that women’s sexuality is more hetero-flexible, more influenced by what they see around them.” More from the New York Times: “The popular stereotype of college campuses as a hive of same-sex experimentation for young women may be all wrong.” The full study is here (PDF).

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A Jim McGreevey Moment?

March 21, 2011 – 2:38 pm

We say nothing, we are in fact speechless at the soap opera unfolding in Glendale, California city council race: “Things have gotten ugly between Glendale, Calif., city council candidate Mike Mohill and incumbent John Drayman. Last week, during a city council meeting, Drayman announced to the room that Mohill had been arrested three times, twice […]

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