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Tell Christie to Withdraw Nomination of Pro-SSM Judge For Extremist Views Equating Christianity and Slavery

Dear Marriage Supporter, I need your help right now to stop Gov. Christie from making a horrible mistake—appointing a radically pro-gay marriage anti-Christian judge to the state supreme court. Click here to send Gov. Christie a message. Gov. Chris Christie has been the hope of millions of Americans across the country looking for honest conservative [...]

Breaking News: Minnesota for Marriage Reports 10,000 Volunteers, $830,000 Raised!

Excellent news from the Minnesota for Marriage coalition which is pushing for the marriage amendment this November: Today, Minnesota for Marriage (MFM,) a broad-based coalition of groups working to pass the Minnesota Marriage Protection Amendment in November, disclosed it raised $830,000 in cash donations. Additionally, the MFM coalition today reported they have recruited over 10,000 [...]

Video: Chris Christie Lashes Out at Legislator Who Accused Him of Racism

DailyCaller with the story (warning: off-color language): New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie lashed out at a fellow Garden State politician Monday, calling an openly gay state legislator a “numbnuts” in response to the lawmaker labeling him a racist last week. A visibly perturbed Christie made the comment during a news conference on Monday, reported the [...]

WA House Committee Approves SSM Bill On Party Line Vote

The Associated Press: A measure to legalize same-sex marriage in Washington state was approved Monday by a House committee, and the Senate is expected to vote on its companion bill within days. Sen. Ed Murray, a Seattle Democrat who is sponsoring one of the bills, said Monday that he expects a floor vote on gay [...]

115 French Legislators: Children Have "Fundamental Right" to be Raised by Mother and Father

LifeSiteNews: The number of French parliamentarians that have added their names to a list of those opposing homosexual “marriage” and adoption has now reached 115, according to the French magazine Liberation. The petition was begun in response to a new initiative by French socialists, who are promising voters to institute homosexual “marriage” if they are [...]

AP on SSM: "So Far [NOM's Side] Has Been Winning"

The Associated Press: Gay rights advocates in New Jersey have been pushing for a decade to get state courts or lawmakers to recognize same-sex marriage. But last week, they demurred when Gov. Christie called for a public vote to settle the topic. Their main reason is based on principle: It’s not fair, they say, to [...]

ADF Attorney: WA Same-Sex Marriage a Threat to Churches

Erik Stanley, senior legal counsel for the Alliance Defense Fund, writes about the Washington State marriage redefinition bill: …What this bill says is that if a church rents out its facilities for non-members to use for weddings, then it will be forced to allow a same-sex couple to use its facilities for a same-sex “marriage” [...]

Washington State Family Policy Activist: SSM Far From a Done Deal

OneNewsNow: Proponents of legislation are claiming they have enough votes for passage in the Senate, although Joseph Backholm of the Family Policy Institute of Washington says no date has been set for consideration. “At the same time, even if it were to pass there’s a very high probability that it will ultimately go to a [...]

Maryland Resident: No Shortage of Reasons to Oppose SSM

David writes to the Baltimore Sun: … It will bog down the legislative agenda unnecessarily when we have serious issues to address in our state. We can’t afford it. Marriage “fairness” is nothing more than agitating for benefits that the institution of marriage encourages. Same-sex marriage has been defeated by the people in every state [...]

Mike Dennehy: New Hampshire Legislators Should Listen to GOP Base on Marriage

The Nashua Telegraph: …Mike Dennehy, the New Hampshire lobbyist for the National Organization for Marriage, delivered an anti-same-sex-marriage treatise to Republican State Chairman Wayne MacDonald last week. Dennehy is a senior GOP strategist who helped build John McCain’s New Hampshire presidential primary victories in 2000 and 2008. “The 2012 elections provide plenty of opportunities but [...]

Gov. Christie Promises Harris Will Recuse Himself on SSM

The Republic: New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie found himself on the defense Monday over his two Supreme Court picks just a week after announcing that he was moving to diversify the state’s all-white Supreme Court by nominating two firsts: an openly gay black man and an immigrant. Christie said Bruce Harris, who is gay, told [...]

Paul Mulshine: Chris Christie Judicial Nominee Wrote in Support of SSM

Paul Mulshine in the New Jersey Star-Ledger broke the story: Christie said of Harris and his other nominee, Phillip Kwon of Bergen County, “I did not ask them about specific cases.” He pointed to two other cases of concern to conservatives, the Abbott school-funding decisions and the Mount Laurel decisions on affordable housing, and said [...]

Prof. Patrick Lee: Same-Sex Marriage "Unjust and Incoherent"

Patrick Lee is the John N. and Jamie D. McAller Professor of Bioethics at Franciscan University of Stuebenville. He writes in Public Discourse that “the conjugal conception of marriage is just and coherent; the same-sex marriage proponents’ unjust and incoherent”: The “marriage equality movement”: that’s the name chosen for themselves by same-sex “marriage” supporters. The [...]

Is This the Kind of Judge a President Christie Would Nominate?

Maggie Gallagher on NRO’s The Corner blog: There’s a brouhaha brewing in New Jersey over Gov. Chris Christie’s nomination to the New Jersey Supreme Court of Bruce Harris. Turns out Harris wrote a letter in 2009 supporting gay marriage — and equating support for our marriage tradition with slavery. Bruce Harris wrote this in a [...]

Superbowl Legend David Tyree On Supporting Marriage and Life After the NFL

USAToday Sports tells us where Superbowl legend David Tyree is now: …The spectacular catch launched [Tryree] into various marketing opportunities and, more important for him, onto a pedestal to share his views. He co-wrote a book, More Than Just the Catch, in which he discussed his strong religious convictions. Tyree and his wife, Leilah, are [...]