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Archbishop Wenski writes that pro-SSM folks risk living in a false reality; in response, gay blogger creates a false reality

April 1, 2011 – 9:42 am

This week Archbishop Thomas Wenski of Miami published an op-ed in the Sun Sentinel: “Traditional Marriage Predates All Of Us.” But it was the Archbishop’s description of the two sides of the marriage debate which drew the venom of a local gay journalist. Here’s what Archbishop Wenski wrote: “In our nation’s culture wars, the two sides […]

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Controversial UK Equality Commission May Soon Be Forced to Undergo Reform

March 30, 2011 – 7:00 am

The UK Equality and Human Rights Commission has surfaced numerous times recently on our NOM marriage newsbeat. This government entity – funded to the tune of 53 million taxpayer pounds (=$84 million American dollars) a year – has been hard at work imposing the “new morality” of liberal elites upon English society; a new morality […]

Posted in Culture, United Kingdom | Comments (3)

Catholic university ignores mandate and gives platform to HRC President

February 1, 2011 – 4:34 pm

The Cardinal Newman Society (which is “dedicated to renewing Catholic higher education”) brought this to my attention first: This afternoon, Georgetown University–a Jesuit institution–is hosting a lecture by  Joe Solmonese, president of the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), according to the University events page. The event with HRC is dubbed “Beyond DADT Repeal: The Future of […]

Posted in Religious Liberty, Same Sex Marriage | Comments (14)

Cheating on Monogamy

January 29, 2011 – 9:09 am

This week I witnessed something fascinating occur. Scores of websites and blogs seized upon a report published in the Journal of Sex Research, which claimed almost a third of partners who said they were monogamous, had in fact slept with someone outside of the relationship. This was not a claim about marriage, and it only […]

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Defining Parenthood Away

January 26, 2011 – 3:05 pm

Lisa Belkin at the New York Times blog “Motherlode” brings to our attention two examples of parenthood being redefined before our eyes: When Anthony Raftopol and his husband, Shawn Hargon Raftopol, had twins in April of 2008, the State of Connecticut would not allow both men’s names to appear on the birth certificates. The children […]

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UK Judge awards damages to gay couple turned away at B&B

January 18, 2011 – 10:35 am

This story is making headlines in the UK today: A British judge has fined a Christian couple for refusing to allow a gay couple the use of a double room at their hotel in southern England. … Bull and his wife cited religious objections, but insisted their policy was not solely aimed at homosexuals but […]

Posted in Religious Liberty, Same Sex Marriage | Comments (51)

Hate messages spray-painted on two CA catholic churches

January 17, 2011 – 12:39 pm

From the California Catholic Daily: The vandals who spray-painted “Kill the Cathlics” on a wall of Catholic church in Anaheim a week ago apparently traveled about 20 miles to a parish in Irvine to scrawl an identical message on a walkway at St. Thomas More parish. “An identical phrase (with misspelling) was spray-painted on a […]

Posted in California, Religious Liberty | Comments (52)

U.S. Passports blur "mother/father" terminology

January 11, 2011 – 12:11 pm

Over the weekend the news broke that the U.S. state department was planning to remove the words “mother” and “father” from our passport applications and replace them with “parent 1” and “parent 2.” Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s spokesman says she was unaware that the changes she authorized would completely remove the names “mother” and […]

Posted in Same Sex Marriage | Comments (14)

What a Dying Culture Looks Like

January 10, 2011 – 9:00 am

Fewer marriages leading to fewer births, as reported by the Economist: “… in the 1950s, fertility started to plummet. Since the 1980s, when the birth rate fell below 1.5 children per woman, Japan has, in effect, had a one-child policy—though, unlike in China, it was self-imposed. It came as a shock to demographers when the […]

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GLAAD to CNN: On gay issues, abandon fairness

January 7, 2011 – 4:30 pm

Most gay activists have nothing left of substance to say, so they are now focusing on trying to silence those who do: The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) has created a petition in an effort to convince CNN to stop inviting what the organization deems “anti-gay” guests onto the network. In fact, GLAAD […]

Posted in Free Speech, Same Sex Marriage | Comments (187)
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