Brian Brown participates in the US News and World Report Debate Club about the proper role of the federal government in defining marriage: “…Properly framed, the question raised by the Supreme Court’s upcoming constitutional review of California’s Proposition 8 and the federal Defense of Marriage Act is whether states and the federal government can legally […]
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Brian Brown in USN&WR Debate Club: "Federal Government Has the Right to Define Marriage"
December 17, 2012 – 1:00 pm
60+ English MPs from Multiple Parties: "We Support a Freedom from the State Being Able to Redefine the Meaning of Marriage"
December 17, 2012 – 12:00 pm
60 MPs in Britain hailing from the conservative, labor, democratic unionist and other parties have written to David Cameron in united defense of marriage: “As parliamentarians from different political parties and none, we are united in supporting the institution of marriage defined in law as a union between a man and a woman. We recognise […]
Maine Notaries Already Resigning After Being Told to Perform S-S Ceremonies or Risk Human Rights Lawsuits
December 17, 2012 – 11:00 am
Bangor Daily News: Notaries public in Maine who officiate weddings of opposite-sex couples and refuse to marry same-sex couples could be subject to a claim of discrimination under the Maine Human Rights Act, according to the Maine secretary of state’s office. The notice sent to municipal clerks this week effectively means an all or none […]
UK Catholics Decry Prime Minister’s Call for Same-Sex Ceremonies in Churches
December 16, 2012 – 9:00 am
EWTN News: Leaders of the Catholic Church in the United Kingdom have reacted strongly against the prime minister’s recent statement that he intends to support same-sex “marriages” in churches. Prime Minister David Cameron “seems utterly determined to undermine one of the key foundations of our society…he is luring the people of England away from their […]
Scottish Bishop Pens Strongly-Worded Letter to PM Cameron Overs His SSM Plan
December 15, 2012 – 11:00 am
LifeSiteNews: In a two-page letter to Prime Minister David Cameron, Joseph Devine, the Catholic bishop of Motherwell in Scotland, has compared Cameron to Nero, the Roman emperor who persecuted Christians, for his determination to bring forward “gay marriage.”Cameron and his government are “devoid of moral competence,” wrote Bishop Devine, adding that that no one believes […]
UK Independence Party: Lawsuits Against Churches "Inevitable" with Gay Marriage Law
December 15, 2012 – 9:00 am
LifeSiteNews: If churches are forced by new legislation or by civil suits to conduct homosexual “marriage” ceremonies against their beliefs, it would constitute “a piece of tyranny by which the rights of hundreds of thousands, millions even, of people of faith … will be ruthlessly trampled upon,” said the United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP). The […]
Prayers for the Victims of the Connecticut School Mass Shooting
December 14, 2012 – 1:30 pm
Our prayers and thoughts are with the victims of the Newtown, CT school shooting. Early reports say 27 have been killed, including 18 young children. May God watch over and protect our most precious gift, our children.
Gay Student Defends Task Force Member Critical of Homosexuality
December 14, 2012 – 12:00 pm
KSTP: “A student on Anoka-Hennepin’s anti-bullying task force says those who were once bullied are now the bullies. Alyssa Beddoe, 17, is a gay student selected to be on the district’s 26-person anti-bullying task force. Beddoe is now defending another task force member, Bryan Lindquist, who has suggested homosexuality is a disorder to be overcome. […]
Jonathan Last on Promoting Marriage to a Nation of Singles
December 14, 2012 – 11:00 am
Jonathan Last’s lengthy article for The Weekly Standard on the rise of singlehood in America is well worth the read, particularly towards the end where he offers this suggestion: “…before the GOP starts working on schemes to pander to singletons, it’s worth considering an alternative path. Rather than entering a bidding war with the Democratic […]
Video: The Compelling Case for Man/Woman Marriage
December 14, 2012 – 10:00 am
These pro-marriage videos keep getting better and better! The Iona Institute in Ireland has produced a very good, under 2-minute video explaining why the message marriage sends is important: Please share it among your friends!
Kevin Williamson on Fourth-Grade Indoctrination
December 14, 2012 – 9:00 am
Kevin Williamson in National Review Online: Next week, fourth-grade students at Penn Valley Elementary School in the gilded Philadelphia suburb of Lower Merion will spend part of their school day watching and discussing a very clever piece of cinematic propaganda courtesy of organized homosexuality. The film is called That’s a Family!, and it is endorsed by the […]
NOM Chairman Eastman: "SCOTUS Won't Rule that California Voters Have No Voice"
December 13, 2012 – 3:30 pm
Our Chairman John Eastman has published an op-ed in USAToday predicting that the most likely outcome is that the Supreme Court will uphold DOMA and Proposition 8: “…Prior to the Perry challenge to Proposition 8, no judge had ever found a federal constitutional right to same-sex marriage. Such a contention has expressly been rejected by […]
On the Reawakening of Christian Humanism in France (to Protect Marriage)
December 13, 2012 – 12:00 pm
Sandro Magister is an expert observer of European culture and tradition, he writes for the Italian newspaper L’Espresso about what is happening in France to protect marriage: “No one would have bet on it. But after decades of invisibility and torpor, the French Catholic Church has returned vigorously to the public scene. It was a […]
Congress Considering Military Religious Freedom Act of 2012
December 13, 2012 – 11:00 am
CitizenLink: Congress is discussing an act that would protect the religious freedom of members of the military, including chaplains who decide not to perform same-sex ceremonies. Introduced in the Senate on Sept. 11, 2012, the Military Religious Freedom Act (MRFA) would also prohibit same-sex marriage ceremonies, or anything similar, at military installations. The House has […]
Anderson Explains Why Government is in the Marriage Business
December 13, 2012 – 10:00 am
For the third part of his series for Ricochet, Ryan Anderson (co-author of What is Marriage?) explains why government has a rightful role in protecting and promoting marriage: “…Getting government out of the civil marriage business would be a catastrophe for limited government. Abolishing civil marriage would weaken social support for its norms. Over time, the […]
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