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Video: Ryan Anderson on FOX News Reacts to Court Rulings

Ryan Anderson did a great job explaining the decisions that were handed down today and defending marriage:

Ryan Anderson in NY Daily News: The Big Same-Sex Marriage Lie

It’s time for proponents of redefining marriage to tell the truth: Same-sex marriage will never be widely accepted in America for a simple reason: It’s based on a lie. But don’t take my word on this; leading LGBT scholars and activists say as much. Take Masha Gessen, acclaimed author and former Russian director of Radio […]

Ryan Anderson: "Why [Do] Conservatives Choose to Focus Exclusively on SSM? ... We Don't"

Ryan Anderson, co-author of What is Marriage? One Man, One Woman: A Defense writes in Ricochet: “As the Ricochet editors mentioned, tomorrow Encounter Books releases my new book, co-authored with Sherif Girgis and Robert P. George, What Is Marriage? Man and Woman: A Defense. So while blogging at Ricochet this week, I thought I’d explore some […]

Ryan Anderson on Why the Promotion of Marriage is Critical to Limited Government

Ryan Anderson writes at America’s Future Foundation in response to a libertarian argument that government should not regulate marriage: “…Shelton reaches her conclusion that marriage supporters “are essentially advocating for the Church and the State to be one and the same. They are fighting for bigger government and cronyism in marriage, although they claim to […]

Ryan Anderson Reviews Maggie Gallagher's New Book Debating SSM

Ryan Anderson, editor of the Public Discourse and William E. Simon Fellow at the Heritage Foundation reviews NOM co-founder Maggie Gallegher’s new book where she debates Prof. John Corvino: The debate over whether to recognize same-sex relationships as marriages is among the most sensitive, difficult, and important in American public life. Sensitive, because it addresses […]

Ryan Anderson on Reasoning for Marriage

Ryan Anderson at Heritage’s Foundry blog writes an extensive examination of the bad reasons being used to redefine marriage: The majority of Americans think it best to keep civil marriage as the union of a man and a woman. But a handful of judges have overruled the reasonable judgments and will of the people and […]

Anderson: "The ENDA Agenda"

On Thursday at The National Review Online, Ryan T. Anderson from Heritage – and co-author of What is Marriage? Man and Woman: A Defense – took on “The ENDA Agenda.” Ryan points out a remarkable confluence where “conservatives and libertarians alike oppose this bill,” explaining why: Of course, employers should respect the intrinsic dignity of all their employees. But ENDA is bad […]

Anderson: Sen. Cruz’s Concerns About Religious Freedom Are Accurate

Ryan Anderson writes today in The National Review: …if marriage is redefined, then a belief that marriage is the union of a man and a woman ordered to procreation and family life — a notion once shared by virtually every human society — would increasingly be characterized as an irrational prejudice that ought to be […]

Anderson: Calling and Witness, Holiness and Truth in the Fight to Protect Marriage

These remarks were delivered by Ryan Anderson on Thursday June 11, 2013 in Laguna Nigel at the closing banquet of Alliance Defending Freedom’s Academy: Thank you, Alliance Defending Freedom, for your heroic work defending life, marriage, and liberty. During the past year it has been a blessing to work together on marriage. It’s been a […]

Anderson: Civility, Bullying and Same-Sex Marriage

Ryan Anderson asks the question “Will government discriminate against those who believe marriage is the union of a man and woman?”: Fourteen months ago, President Obama was a bigot. Now he is simply wrong. That’s what you have to believe to agree with Justice Anthony M. Kennedy’s majority opinion for the Supreme Court on the […]

Anderson: Bad Things Happen to Children When Marriage is Redefined

Gay marriage activists have taken to claiming that redefining marriage will help children. Ryan Anderson responds that the opposite is true: Marriage is society’s best way of ensuring the well-being of children. State recognition of marriage protects children, we saw yesterday, by encouraging men and women to commit permanently and exclusively to each other and […]

Anderson: The Left's Three Techniques on Marriage Redefinition - And How to Counter Them

A must-read from Ryan Anderson in The Blaze: The Left has had some success in its push to redefine marriage, for readily apparent reasons: They dominate the media, they dominate the academy and, as we saw last week, they dominate the courts. Certainly dominance in the elite sectors of opinion-shaping helps. But the Left also […]

Anderson: What Three Dissents Signal for Marriage's Future

Good weekend reading from Ryan Anderson: “Not only was the Supreme Court’s ruling on the Defense of Marriage Act baseless and just plain wrong, you won’t learn much from reading Justice Anthony Kennedy’s majority opinion. Except that he thinks only bigotry can explain support for marriage as it was until the year 2000—a male-female union. […]

George, Anderson & Girgis: The Supreme Court, You and Me, and the Future of Marriage

In the Public Discourse today, Prof. Robert George, Ryan Anderson and Sherif Girgis argue that “what happened yesterday at the courthouse matters, and we must keep up our witness to the truth about marriage, by word and deed, until it is safely beyond judicial overreach”: Here’s the least reported fact about yesterday’s rulings on marriage: […]

Anderson: Supreme Court’s Mixed Decision on Marriage

Ryan Anderson writes in National Review Online that “the Supreme Court announced disturbing decisions today on two important cases dealing with marriage law. The Court refused, however, to create a constitutional right to same-sex marriage”: Proposition 8 In its ruling on California’s Proposition 8, the Court declared that the citizen group that sponsored Prop 8 […]