If all you need for marriage is any 2 people, why not any 1 person? Back in 2003, Sex and the City identified a cruel reality about single life: There’s no single-person’s equivalent of a wedding—a time when people travel from afar to bring you gifts and toast your life decisions. Carrie Bradshaw said, “If you […]
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William Duncan's Take on the Importance of the Nevada Decision on Marriage for SCOTUS
December 3, 2012 – 1:00 pm
The media is attempting to bury this news but it has significant import for the effort to legally settle the marriage question. William Duncan, writing in NRO, explains what happened: In the wake of the Ninth Circuit’s decision striking down Proposition 8, Lambda Legal sued the State of Nevada alleging the state’s marriage amendment was […]
Brian Brown on the Mike Huckabee Show: "Our Founders Did Not Create a Constitutional Right to Redefine Marriage"
December 3, 2012 – 11:30 am
Brian Brown appeared on the Mike Huckabee Show last week discussing the Supreme Court and the mutually-exclusive legal arguments for same-sex marriage: Brian Brown makes his predictions: “Almost everyone on both sides agrees that the [Supreme] Court is going to take the DOMA cases and we believe, we’re confident, the court is going to take […]
Supreme Court to Make DOMA/Prop 8 Announcements on Friday
December 3, 2012 – 10:15 am
The SCOTUSBlog: The Supreme Court on Monday released added orders from its Friday Conference, but the list did not include any on the ten cases dealing with the same-sex marriage issue. It now appears that those cases will be rescheduled for the Conference this Friday morning.
Commission Opposes T-Shirt Company’s Refusal To Print Gay Pride Message
December 3, 2012 – 9:00 am
CitizenLink: A Kentucky commission has announced its support of a gay and lesbian group suing a T-shirt company owned by a Christian man who declined to print the group’s shirts because the message, he said, violates his faith. Blaine Adamson, who owns Hands On Originals (HOO) in Lexington, Ky., refused to print T-shirts for the […]
Spain's Bishops Urge United Front Against SSM
December 2, 2012 – 9:00 am
Catholic News Service: Spain’s Catholic bishops urged political parties to unite against same-sex marriage, after it was confirmed as legal by the Constitutional Court. “Spanish legislation on marriage is gravely unjust — it does not protect the parties’ right to be recognized in law as husband and wife, nor the right of children and young […]
Video of the Massive Pro-Marriage French Rallies
December 1, 2012 – 9:00 am
As we reported earlier, hundreds of thousands of pro-marriage Frenchmen and women have gathered to protest the planned redefinition of marriage in France. As this video shows, they chant slogans such as “Family is sacred, we must respect it” and “France has work to do, no to homosexual marriage.”
Breaking News: Nevada Federal Judge Rejects Same-Sex Marriage
November 30, 2012 – 1:30 pm
The Associated Press: “… U.S. District Chief Judge Robert Jones ruled that Nevada has what he calls “a legitimate state interest” in maintaining the traditional institution of marriage between one man and one woman. He says the state has the right to prohibit recognition of marriages from other states.” Maggie Gallagher comments at NRO’s The […]
Supreme Court Weighing Gay Marriage Cases
November 30, 2012 – 12:15 pm
The Chicago Tribune: The running fight over gay marriage is shifting from the ballot box to the Supreme Court. Three weeks after voters backed same-sex marriage in three states and defeated a ban in a fourth, the justices are meeting Friday to decide whether they should deal sooner rather than later with the claim that […]
Rick Warren: Tolerance Has Disappeared From the SSM Debate
November 30, 2012 – 9:00 am
LifeSiteNews: Those who say intolerance is a major problem in the debate over homosexuality and same-sex “marriage” have a valid point, but not in the way they think, according to one of the nation’s most popular pastors. In a whirlwind media tour to promote the tenth anniversary edition of his bestseller, The Purpose Driven Life – […]
After SSM, Washington State to Remove Terms "Husband" and "Wife" from Marriage Certificates
November 29, 2012 – 4:00 pm
KIRO TV: With a week until same-sex couples can register to be married in Washington, state workers are scrambling to get the right paperwork approved so there is no confusion when gay couples file to marry. Next Thursday, gay couples can go to their county auditor’s office and fill out the forms for marriage, but […]
Brian Brown: "We Are the Rebels Now!"
November 29, 2012 – 3:00 pm
Our President Brian Brown was interviewed by Reuters on the future of the marriage battle: “…in many states the gay marriage fight remains an uphill battle. The National Organization for Marriage says its own polling has found well over half of American voters believe marriage should be defined as a union of one man and […]
Poll: 20% of Voters Said Marriage a Top 3 Issue For Them
November 29, 2012 – 1:00 pm
Gary Bauer on the lessons to be learned from the election: In a national exit poll of 800 voters conducted on my behalf by the polling company, inc./WomanTrend, 8 percent of respondents said that the definition of marriage was their top issue, while another 20 percent called it one of their three top issues. Interestingly, […]
Tom Gilson on Marriage as a Human Good
November 29, 2012 – 11:00 am
Tom Gilson of Breakpoint/The Colson Center reviews the new book “What is Marriage? One Man One Woman: A Defense” and reflects on what it means to say marriage is a human good: “… [marriage] is a human good. Its goodness stands upon, and flows out of, what we are as human beings. It is good […]
Gay Marriage and Question Begging
November 29, 2012 – 9:00 am
Ken Zaretzke in the First Things blog on the logical fallacies under-girding much of the marriage debate: “…Same-sex marriage is built on a foundation of question-begging and caricature. It’s stunning how much the advocates of SSM beg the question of whether opposite-sex couples and same-sex couples are similarly situated with respect to marriage–their talk of […]
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