Austin Ruse writes at The Catholic Thing about what Chick-fil-A did for both sides of the marriage debate. Their side: “It’s like they saw us for the very first time. They have heard about us. They certainly talk about us enough. They psychoanalyze us. They mock us. But they never really see us. They know […]
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Austin Ruse on Why Chick-fil-A is Important for the Pro-Marriage Revolution
August 14, 2012 – 1:00 pm
Video: Gay Liberation Network Taunts Priest Praying Rosary Outside Chick-fil-A Inbox
August 14, 2012 – 12:00 pm
This video of a Catholic priest in Chicago praying a rosary while walking with a group of Gay Liberation Network protestors outside a Chick-fil-A in Chicago is making the rounds. Look what happens: At one point they tell him: “We don’t want tolerance, we want equality.”
Baptist Press: Chick-fil-A May Influence Gay Marriage Votes This Fall
August 14, 2012 – 11:00 am
The Baptist Press: In a sign that the debate over Chick-fil-A is not going away, traditional groups in the four states voting on gay marriage this fall apparently are set to make the pushback against the restaurant an issue, arguing that the intimidation and name-calling aimed at Chick-fil-A were only a preview of what will […]
Video: Chicago Chick-fil-A Kiss-In Protesters "Chalk" & Harass Homeless Person
August 14, 2012 – 10:00 am
Anne Sorock of Legal Insurrection writes: I attended Friday night’s “Kiss-in” protest outside the only Chick-fil-A location in Chicago. The small group of between twenty to thirty protesters gathered outside the restaurant around 7pm. A few same-sex couples took the opportunity to kiss in public, as the protest organizers encouraged attendees to do on their […]
Jerry Newcombe on Chick-fil-A and Orwellian Times
August 14, 2012 – 9:00 am
Jerry Newcombe, author of 23 books, writes in the Christian Post about media bias and Chick-fil-A: “…In some ways, the culture wars are ultimately a conflict between a biblically-based worldview versus that of secular humanism. And the dominant media expresses the latter. It took a former Marxist, who used the pen name George Orwell, to write […]
Maryland Chick-fil-A Vandalized with Gay Marriage Paraphernalia
August 14, 2012 – 8:00 am
The Examiner: The Frederick News-Post reported Sunday that a Chick-Fil-A restaurant in Frederick, Maryland, was the target of vandals who gluedgay marriage stickers and other items to the windows sometime Saturday night. Cpl. Gregory Santangelo said that in addition to the stickers, several homemade signs and an image “with the American and gay pride flags […]
NOM Pledges $100,000 to Defeat Pro-SSM Iowa Judge
August 13, 2012 – 3:00 pm
The Quad City Times: Conservative activist Bob Vander Plaats announced the launch of an effort Saturday to defeat Iowa Supreme Court Justice David Wiggins in the Nov. 6 judicial retention vote similar to the way voters sent a trio of justices packing two years ago for their role in a 2009 decision that paved the […]
Iowa GOP Chairman Calls for Ouster of Another Pro-SSM Judge
August 13, 2012 – 2:00 pm
The Des Moines Register Iowa Politics blog: The Republican Party of Iowa’s chairman is pushing for the ouster of one of the authors of a court decision that legalized same-sex marriage in Iowa. Gay marriage instantly became a political hot button in Iowa after the ruling three years ago, but there has been little urgency […]
Katrina Trinko: GOP Shouldn't Silence Itself on Social Issues Around Young Adults
August 13, 2012 – 1:00 pm
Katrina Trinko responds to the New York Times article which tried to get the GOP to underplay social issues to young adults. On same-sex marriage she writes: “…Furthermore, while support for same-sex marriage may be growing among young Republicans, 63 percent of young Republicans either oppose or don’t have an opinion about gay marriage, according […]
Cardinal of Chicago: The Way SSM is Being Debated Now is a "Formula for Tyranny."
August 13, 2012 – 12:00 pm
Cardinal Francis George of Chicago on lessons learned from the Chick-fil-A controversy: “Responses to my reflections last week on “Chicago values” fell into two camps. There were almost universal plaudits for recognizing that the government should be concerned about actions and not about thoughts and values. The media, of course, are in this camp, because […]
Democrat Party Platform Backs SSM
August 13, 2012 – 11:30 am
Making it official: The national Democratic Party’s platform committee endorsed gay marriage Saturday for the first time and called for the repeal of a federal law that recognizes marriage as between a man and a woman. The committee, meeting in downtown Detroit, let stand the work of a separate group that drafted the platform two […]
Political Rhetoric Professor Debunks Maryland Poll Claiming Majority Support for SSM
August 13, 2012 – 11:00 am
Prof. Richard Vatz, who himself is not opposed to same-sex marriage, offers in the Baltimore Sun a thorough fisking of polls commissioned, conducted and used not to portray actual support for same-sex marriage but instead to undermine resistance to it: “There was a brief explosion of optimism from those supporting same-sex marriage in Maryland last week […]
Torrence Police Arrest Man Charged With Vandalizing Chick-fil-A
August 13, 2012 – 10:00 am
LA Weekly: Manny Castro, the self-described street artist who admitted he painted “Tastes Like Hate” on the side of a Torrance Chick-fil-A last week in response to the chicken empire’s anti-gay-marriage stance, has been arrested, Torrance police tell the Weekly. Sgt. Steven Jenkinson said Castro was collared in West Hollywood about 7 p.m. yesterday. Castro […]
NY Senator McDonald Constituents Sent Mailer Reminding Them of His "Shove It" Comment
August 13, 2012 – 9:00 am
The campaign to re-elect marriage flip-flopper Roy McDonald is upset that his opponent in the New York Republican primary, Saratoga County Clerk Kathy Marchione, sent a mailer to his constituents reminding them that he said he would “defend traditional marriage” but then he “turned his back on [them]” voting for gay marriage and when confronted […]
Minnesota Voter Says Look to Iowa for Why We Need to Pass the Marriage Protection Amendment
August 13, 2012 – 8:00 am
Morris Gildemeister of Hastings, MN on the clear and present danger to marriage in states without Marriage Protection Amendments: “…Our neighboring state of Iowa provides an excellent example of why marriage should be defined as between a man and woman in the state constitution, as the amendment up for a vote this fall would provide. […]
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