More on the Campaign to Re-elect the President’s efforts to demonize and punish their political opponents, via Daniel Halper at The Weekly Standard: Businessman Frank Vandersloot, the CEO of Melaleuca, has been targeted by the Obama campaign after donating money to Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign. “Three weeks ago, an Obama campaign website, ‘Keeping GOP Honest,’ [...]
Bill Kristol, editor of The Weekly Standard, on the choice facing Americans this November: “…Will victory in November guarantee prevailing over the long run? Aren’t the defenders of the traditional family—or as we would have it, the defenders of the family—destined to be swamped by the modern tidal waves of individual choice and sexual liberation? [...]
The Blaze: Team Obama “named and shamed” eight private citizens for donating to former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney, The Blaze reported two weeks ago. Frank VanderSloot, one of the eight men detailed by the president’s “Truth Team,” is discovering what it means to be on a president’s “enemies list.” VanderSloot has run a wellness-products company [...]
This new CBS News poll is a good reminder that, when given the option of civil unions, only 38% of Americans support redefining marriage. This is similar to the Alliance Defense Fund’s polling which found that 62% of Americans believe marriage should be defined only as a union between one man and one woman:
The New York Daily News: Newsweek isn’t going to let Time win without a fight. In the battle for most controversial cover of the week, Newsweek fired back at Time magazine’s now-infamous breastfeeding mom image by putting President Barack Obama under a rainbow halo with the tagline “The First Gay President.” “Obama’s earned every stripe [...]
Rich Lowry is the editor of National Review: “…History is littered with the wreckage of causes pronounced inevitable by all right-thinking people. The failed Equal Rights Amendment looked inevitable when it passed Congress in 1972 and immediately 30 states ratified it. Opposition to abortion that was supposed to inevitably wither away is as robust as [...]
As we wrote last week, Obama’s support of SSM puts almost every Democrat running in a conservative state in a tough position, according to The Hill: Senate Democrats facing difficult reelections are breaking with President Obama’s endorsement of same-sex marriage, a sign the issue is politically dangerous in battleground states. Sens. Jon Tester (Mont.) and [...]
The New York Times tries to make the case but the facts are pathetically against them: Last weekend, former President Bill Clinton took to North Carolina phone lines with a recorded message warning of the perils of a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage and civil unions. “What it will change is North Carolina’s ability to keep [...]
Katrino Trinko at National Review Online: Twenty-three percent of independent voters are less likely to vote for Barack Obama because of his announcement that he supports same-sex marriage, according to a Gallup/USA Today poll. Eleven percent are more likely. There might also be a slight shift in how Democrats and Republicans are inclined to vote: [...]
NOM co-founder Maggie Gallagher is interviewed by Lila Shapiro about how Obama’s marriage flip-flop will affect the Presidential race: What was your first reaction when you heard the president say that he thought that same-sex couples should be able to get married? Relieved. Lying to the American people to get elected is always wrong, so [...]
The Indy Star: Iowa Supreme Court Justice David Wiggins vows he won’t stand quietly by if opponents of same-sex marriage launch a potent campaign to oust him from the bench. “If someone wants to attack me, I’m not going to let them bully me,” Wiggins said in a telephone interview last week with The Des [...]
The BBC: The Welsh government has written to all Catholic schools in Wales to remind them to give a “balanced perspective” when discussing same-sex marriage. Education minister Leighton Andrews’ intervention comes after the Catholic Education Service (CES) invited schools to ask pupils to sign a petition opposing gay civic marriage laws. … “I trust you [...]
Rachel Zoll at the Associated Press: The evangelical pastor who President Barack Obama calls his spiritual adviser says he’s disappointed in the president’s decision to endorse same-sex marriage. The Rev. Joel Hunter of Florida told The Associated Press that Obama called him before ABC News broadcast the announcement Wednesday. Hunter says he told the president [...]
How do the American people feel about Obama pushing Hollywood morality? President Barack Obama’s star-studded fundraiser tonight with actor George Clooney is expected to bring in $16 million, making it one of the most lucrative political money events ever. Mr. Obama is scheduled to attend a fund-raiser on Thursday night at the Fryman Canyon home [...]
FoxNews.com: Sen. Orrin Hatch is calling on the IRS to investigate whether someone on the inside could have leaked the private tax files of a prominent anti-gay marriage group. Hatch, in a letter Tuesday to IRS Commissioner Douglas Shulman, said, “evidence suggests that the IRS may have been the source of the unauthorized disclosure of [...]
