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March 17, 2011 – 12:54 pm

According to the Christian Legal Center, a German couple was jailed after withdrawing their children from a mandatory sexual education class. “Heinrich and Irene Wiens, who are actively involved in the Christian Baptist Church, did not allow their children to attend an interactive play entitled Mein Köper Gehört Mir (“My Body Is Mine”) and four […]

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WaPo Column: African-Americans who Oppose SSM "Should Be Ashamed of Themselves"

March 17, 2011 – 12:49 pm

Keith Berner in the Washington Post has a lot to say about Maryland. He tells Del. Tiffany Alston she was wrong to listen to her own constituents, whom he proceeds to vilify as motivated by “hatred and vitriol”: “So, why is it right to follow the hatred and vitriol of constituents when they demand discrimination […]

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New York: Unilateral Divorce Case Shakes Legal System

March 17, 2011 – 10:35 am

Both parties must say “I do” to begin a marriage, but can just one party say “I don’t anymore” to end a marriage? New York – the 50th and final state to allow no-fault divorce – the struggle over this issue continues in the courts. The statute in question: Signed into law on the 15th […]

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700 pro-marriage Iowans rally in Des Moines: "Let us vote!"

March 17, 2011 – 10:27 am

From the Des Moines Register: Chanting “Let us vote. Let us vote,” about 500 [our friends on the ground say it was 700] supporters of a constitutional amendment to ban same-gender marriage rallied Tuesday at the Iowa Capitol. The hourlong rally drew an enthusiastic crowd from throughout the state decked out in red shirts and […]

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Indiana: Vote Looming on State Marriage Amendment?

March 16, 2011 – 11:23 pm

More encouraging news from the Hoosier State! A committee vote [on the proposed state marriage amendment] will come next week, then the full Senate would weigh in. It has passed that chamber numerous times in the past. If it passes again, no other action is necessary this session because it already passed the House. The […]

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Washington Blade Columnist: Go After Alston, Stukes, Jill Carter and Sam Arora

March 16, 2011 – 8:23 am

This cri de’ coeur from the gay paper, the Washington Blade, undoubtedly expresses the views of many gay activists, after their devastating defeat in Maryland. Go after Alston, Stukes, Carter and Arora, he urges: “…our allies sold us out. They are weak and afraid and driven by self-preservation. Lawmakers who campaigned on support for marriage […]

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Obama on MD: "Mum"

March 16, 2011 – 8:15 am

Mum’s the word: White House Press Secretary Jay Carney was tight-lipped on Monday about any reaction from President Obama on the recent failure of same-sex marriage legislation to advance in Maryland or whether the president would soon make an announcement in support of marriage equality. Under questioning from the Washington Blade, Carney said he had […]

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Craig Campbell: "Family Man"

March 16, 2011 – 8:13 am

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After the Johns, what next? State intervention in natural families

March 16, 2011 – 8:04 am

J. E. Dyer contributes to multiple blogs and she also writes a weekly column for Patheos. This from HotAir: This interpretation of the law [in the case of the Johns] is idiotic on its face. But it was handed down by the British High Court. The next obvious step is ruling that parents must endorse homosexuality […]

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Lawyer for British couple forbidden to foster speaks out

March 16, 2011 – 8:02 am

Paul Diamond is the Barrister (lawyer) to the Johns and in a new article pushes back against the claim that children must be protected from Christianity: This liberal tyranny must be rejected by the British people. The law is now prejudiced, irrational and partial; it punishes individuals for ‘thought crime’ and the State endorses an […]

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What's Next? Emergency numbers to report 'homophobia'

March 16, 2011 – 7:57 am

In Brazil: Catholic priest and pro-life activist Luiz Carlos Lodi da Cruz is warning that Brazilians who object to homosexual behavior and reject the homosexualist political agenda in Brazil could soon be targeted by a new whistleblower system installed by Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff. Beginning in late February, the Brazilian government has begun to take […]

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Suit: College muzzled us on abortion, gay marriage

March 16, 2011 – 7:56 am

Via the Brooklyn Paper: Two Kingsborough Community College students says the school has attacked their right to free speech by trying to sabotage their plans to hold a seminar on the “negative consequences” of gay marriage, and by forcing them to stop handing out anti-abortion leaflets on campus. In court papers filed March 7, both […]

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Are Christians Obsessed With Gays and Abortion?

March 16, 2011 – 7:55 am

David French, writing at Patheos, provides some perspective. After running through the numbers – which show Christians give far less money to “pure culture war organizations” (and not as much as the Left) than they do to leading Christian anti-poverty charities, he concludes: So given these realities, what is our real “obsession”? Historically, monetarily, and […]

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What Happened in Maryland? The Churches Spoke Up!

March 14, 2011 – 8:46 am

A few weeks ago, right after the SSM bill passed the Maryland Senate, the Baltimore Sun headlined: “Gay marriage opponents slow to fight in Annapolis.” But last week just before Friday’s vote, the Sun reported that delegates “had never heard from so many people on a single issue.” The Washington Post reports that phone calls […]

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Ron Paul defends DOMA, right of Iowans to oust Justices

March 14, 2011 – 8:35 am

Something interesting we didn’t have time to mention last week: Texas Congressman Ron Paul, speaking to a religious conservative group in Pella., Ia., today (March 7), cast the gay marriage issue as a states’ rights matter. He said he supports the federal Defense of Marriage Act, which specifies that states do not have to accept […]

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