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Video: Black churches lobby against MD same-sex marriage bill

March 10, 2011 – 11:43 am

Rev. Nathaniel Thomas is featured (among others) in this video produced by WaPo: The related story to this video can be found here. The vote is tomorrow – so there is still time for you to contact your delegate!

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ADF: What Obama Could Have Learn From the MN Court Ruling

March 10, 2011 – 11:42 am

Defending DOMA is simple. As ADF’s Jordan Lorence points out, there’s controlling Supreme Court precedent on the question of same-sex marriage: “A Minnesota state trial judge in Minneapolis showed President Obama and the Department of Justice at least one major way to defend a law defining marriage as one man and one woman. Hennepin County […]

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Video: Chuck Colson on the "Demise of DOMA" and the Wrecking of the Constitution

March 9, 2011 – 10:20 am

The Two-Minute Warning with Chuck Colson: Chuck Colson is “flabbergasted” at President Obama and his administration’s breath-taking usurpation of power. And he has a message for the church: Your silence is deafening.

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Prince Georges County Opposition to Gay Marriage

March 9, 2011 – 7:00 am

The Gazette reports this as a “mixed” reaction, but the news point is clearly the rising opposition to SSM in this key county: Outside First Baptist, Keisha Huggins of District Heights said gay people worship at First Baptist but said her pastor, John K. Jenkins Sr., has made it clear to his congregation that same-sex […]

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Gay Press: "Chuck Norris Thinks Schools Are Too Gay"

March 8, 2011 – 3:23 pm

That’s what the editors of The Advocate think he is saying. Here is what Walker, Texas Ranger actually had to say: The impact of progressivism is being experienced by students across this land, hundreds of thousands of whom have already cried out with complaints of academic inequity. A sampling of the hundreds of student grievances […]

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After Gay Marriage: What Next? CA Senator honors children's book on SSM

March 7, 2011 – 5:30 pm

CA State Senator Mark Leno has issued a proclamation to coincide with the launch of “My Uncle’s Wedding”, a new book which introduces children as early as 4 to same-sex marriage (Amazon.com has the book listed under “Marriage & Divorce” and “Gay & Lesbian Parenting & Families”). Here is Leno’s proclamation: “Congratulations as we celebrate […]

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Video: Maggie Gallagher on C-SPAN

March 7, 2011 – 2:29 pm

From the C-SPAN website: Maggie Gallagher and Brian Moulton talked about House Republican efforts to defend the law that forbids federal recognition of same-sex marriages, the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). The Obama administration said recently it would no longer defend the law in court. National Organization for Marriage’s Maggie Gallagher is against same-sex marriage. […]

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Monday Double Feature - Maggie on "News Talk" at 10:30AM

March 7, 2011 – 9:43 am

Maggie, after appearing on C-SPAN’s Washington Journal this morning, is also going to be on DC’s News Channel 8 at 10:30am ET on their show “News Talk”. She will be discussing DOMA and Speaker Boehner’s comments last week.

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NH Vote to Delay Repealing SSM Likely to Influence GOP Presidential Race

March 5, 2011 – 5:05 pm

New Hampshire Republicans in committee voted to “retain” a bill repealing same-sex marriage, a move that will require them to vote on the bill to repeal gay marriage in January 2012. Politico notices that’s likely to influence the prominence of the issue for GOP candidates. Bizarrely, as ever in the msm, these reporters seem to […]

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NOM Responds to Speaker Boehner's Comments on DOMA

March 4, 2011 – 6:00 pm

NATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR MARRIAGE THANKS SPEAKER BOEHNER FOR STANDING UP FOR DOMA Brian Brown, president of the National Organization for Marriage (NOM), responds to House Speaker John Boehner’s comments today on the Defense of Marriage Act: “This is a great win for marriage, for democracy and for our Constitutional processes. We are grateful to Speaker […]

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Senator Marco Rubio Releases Statement on DOMA Defense

March 4, 2011 – 4:57 pm

U.S. Senator Marco Rubio issued the following statement regarding the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA): “I want to thank Speaker Boehner and the House Republican leadership for taking action to defend this critical law that was enacted by a bipartisan majority in Congress and signed by President Bill Clinton. It is unfortunate that President Obama […]

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Congresswoman Hartzler introduces resolution on Obama's DOMA decision

March 4, 2011 – 4:04 pm

In addition to Speaker Boehner’s statement today, Congresswoman Hartzler has introduced a resolution in the House of Representatives requesting that the Obama administration reverse course and continue defending DOMA: Congresswoman Vicky Hartzler is the lead sponsor of legislation calling on President Obama and his Department of Justice to respect the law and enforce the Defense […]

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Leader Cantor also releases statement on DOMA

March 4, 2011 – 3:27 pm

House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) today issued the following statement regarding the Defense of Marriage Act (Speaker of the House John Boehner released his own statement): “Last week, the Obama Administration announced that they would immediately stop defending portions of the Defense of Marriage Act, a statute passed overwhelmingly by bipartisan margins of Congress […]

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Maryland House Committee Passes SSM Bill

March 4, 2011 – 3:16 pm

A breaking alert: A Maryland House committee has moved forward a bill to legalize gay marriage in the state. The panel voted 12 to 10 to approve the bill Friday. The bill, which already has been passed by the state Senate, now goes to the full House of Delegates. (source: FoxNews.com)

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Weekly Standard: "Blue States Against Gay Marriage"

March 3, 2011 – 11:10 pm

John McCormack reports in the Weekly Standard: “The events in Maryland and Rhode Island seem to contradict all of the claims that social issues just don’t matter like they used to. Polls show that younger voters support gay marriage more than older voters, but that demographic shift has not yet produced many victories for gay […]

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