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Now We're Talking (About the Marriage Issue)

December 29, 2010 11:09 A.M. By Matthew J. Franck The impact of the article “What Is Marriage?” in the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy on the gay-marriage debate continues to be profound.  Authors Sherif Girgis, Robert P. George, and Ryan T. Anderson (hereafter GG&A) issued a challenge to those who would “expand” the institution […]

Marriage: Real Bodily Union

by Sherif Girgis, Ryan T. Anderson and Robert P. George December 30, 2010 http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2010/12/2277 A response to FamilyScholars Blogger Barry Deutsch. Like Andrew Koppelman, Barry Deutsch has posted a critique of our recent Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy article arguing that marriage is the conjugal union of husband and wife. And, like Koppelman, Deutsch makes central to his critique a […]

Cardinal Donald Wuerl on Fox News Sunday

Cardinal Wuerl defends the Catholic Church’s teaching on marriage on Fox News Sunday.

WSJ Touts Mike Pence As Potential GOP Prez Candidate

Wall Street Journal today touts Indiana’s Mike Pence as a potential frontrunner for the  GOP nomination who can unite all wings of the party: “When conservative activist and former presidential candidate Gary Bauer scans the potential 2012 Republican field, not much excites him. “All the obvious frontline names have all the usual pluses and minuses,” […]

Politico: SBA, NOM Press RNC Chairmen on Social Issues

The story at Politico on an innovative effort lead by SBA list to ask leading candidates for the RNC their opinion on life.  SBA also invited NOM to ask  the RNC candidates questions on marriage.

Matt Franck on NPR: Charges of "Hate" Intended to Silence Debate

Matt Franck’s interview on NPR discussing his WaPo column that points out the charge of hate is made by people who would prefer not to have to debate.

What Does This Mean for the Gay Marriage Debate?

Maggie on NRO about DADT.

"Whether You Like it Or Not"

Vallejo parents who were upset at their children being exposed to indoctrination suggesting that all family forms are just the same were ignored by the school board, who ruled their children will be exposed without notification, without right to object. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26SFLUBJQtw&feature=player_embedded

Why Did Judge Reinhardt Refuse to Recuse Himself?

Two weeks after Judge Reinhardt refused to recuse himself, he still hasn’t issued the memo he promised explaining his reasoning. The mystery deepens.

Princeton v. Yale; Robby George vs. Kenji Yoshino

Yale prof. Kenji Yoshino tries to rebut Princeton Prof. Robby George’s new essay (along with Sherif Girgis and Ryan Anderson) “What is Marriage?” in Slate today. [Correction: Prof. Yoshino recently left Yale Law to join NYU’s law school] Over at NRO’s Bench Memos blog Matthew Franck evaluates the match and issues a ruling: Princeton by […]

Newsweek: New Leaders of Christian Right

NOM Chairman Maggie Gallagher is featured as one of the “Faces of the Christian Right” by Newsweek, as is NOM’s founding Chairman Robby George. Here’s the weird thing though: Jim Wallis is listed as a member of the “Christian Right” as are several people who work for Pres. Obama. The old Christian Left is apparently […]

Tom Peters on Sullivan v. Gallagher

NOM Chairman Maggie Gallagher debated Andrew Sullivan at Georgetown University Wednesday night, in an event facilitated by a new group called Catholics for Equality and moderated by E.J. Dionne. The day of the event Archbishop Wuerl’s spokesman released a statement saying Catholics for Equality is not a Catholic group.  Listening to Andrew Sullivan, you could […]

Maggie Discusses Prop 8 on CBN

Here’s NOM’s Chairman Maggie Gallagher on TV talking over the Prop 8 oral arguments on Christian Broadcasting Network.

Breaking News: New Lawsuit Charges Iowa Judicial Selection System Unconstitutional

We knew something was fishy in Des Moines, when Democrats outnumbers Republicans on the Judicial Nominating Commission by 12 to 1. Under Iowa’ current system the Governor picks from three judges recommended by the Commission–and he cannot pick anyone else. Here’s what we didn’t know, but Bopp, Coleson and Bostrum figured out:  Seven of the […]

WaPo reports Maryland poised to pass SSM next year

According to the Washington Post, Maryland is poised to pass an SSM law next year.