Sen. Jim Alesi apparently saw the writing on the wall and realized his vote for SSM had already ended his political career: During an exclusive interview on Capital Tonight, Republican Sen. Jim Alesi made a surprise announcement: He has decided not to seek re-election in his Rochester-area district. Alesi sparked controversy when he became the [...]
The spokesperson for HRC in this story continues to try to misdirect away from the main question: did HRC illegally receive and disseminate private, federally protected tax information? A spokesman for the gay rights group Human Rights Campaign didn’t respond to the question of whether or not authorities had contacted the group after reports that [...]
Rick Santorum responds, via CNN: Former GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum: “The announcement today by President Obama should come as no surprise to the American public. President Obama has consistently fought against protecting the institution of marriage from radical social engineering at both the state and federal level. The President recently opposed the North Carolina [...]
Via CNN: Sen. Orrin Hatch, Republican of Utah: “I’m glad the President finally laid out his position to the American people, but changing the definition of marriage is not something I can support. The sanctity of marriage is not to be taken lightly. Sanctioned by God, this sacred union between a man and a woman [...]
CNN’s responses to Obama’s marriage announcement includes this one, from Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus: “Because our children’s future is best preserved within the traditional understanding of marriage, we call for a constitutional amendment that fully protects marriage as a union of a man and a woman, so that judges cannot make other arrangements [...]
The Washington Post on the money behind the morph: The controversy that has erupted this week over President Obama’s stance on same-sex marriage has cast a spotlight on the importance of the gay community to his re-election fundraising efforts. Many of Obama’s key financial supporters are gay, including finance director Rufus Gifford and Democratic National [...]
CBS News: “We think it’s a huge mistake. President Obama is choosing the money over the voters the day after 61 percent of North Carolinians in a key swing state demonstrated they oppose gay marriage,” said Maggie Gallagher, co-founder of the National Organization for Marriage and director of the Culture War Victory Fund.
Mitt Romney said: “I do not favor marriage between people of the same gender and I don’t favor civil unions if they are identical to marriage other then by name. My view is that domestic partnership benefits, hospital visitation rights and the like are appropriate but that the others are not.”
Ross Douthat in the New York Times says if same-sex proponents and journalists were consistent, they would be far more harsh on the President’s waffling on marriage: “…to say that the president’s approach is understandable does not mean that it’s necessarily defensible. Supporters of same-sex marriage have worked very hard to frame their issue, not [...]
NewsMax on the news we reported earlier this morning about ongoing developments in our quest for definitive answers from the IRS about the leak of our confidential tax documents to the HRC: U.S. Sen. Orrin Hatch is asking the Internal Revenue Service to investigate the possible unauthorized disclosure of the National Organization for Marriage’s (NOM) [...]
Erick Erickson, CNN political contributor and founder of Red State: “…North Carolina did not pass a ban on gay marriage as the media reports. Rather they refused to allow their definition of marriage to be changed. The marriage definition was put into law years ago, but with an onslaught of judicial activists, the voters in [...]
Alex Roart of the National Journal: “The overwhelming North Carolina vote to define marriage as legal only between a man and woman is an unequivocal reminder that gay marriage remains unappealing in many parts of the country… That’s a warning for President Obama, who is currently positioned somewhere between supporters of gay marriage – who [...]
[We will be updating this throughout the day!] NBC Politics: “Our position that marriage is between a man and a woman is gaining support, not losing support,” said Brian Brown, president of the National Organization for Marriage.
Jeffrey Bell in the Weekly Standard: Yesterday’s overwhelming approval of a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage and civil unions by the voters of North Carolina underlines the growing likelihood that the issue will be a major factor in the 2012 presidential election. Consider the following circumstances: … Republican elites and consultants who say the definition [...]
Left-leaning Public Policy Polling, which is based in North Carolina and polled the Marriage Amendment faithfully month by month right up until the final days before yesterday’s vote, was candid about what they learned from seeing marriage hugely outperform their own predictions: They also noted that marriage’s ability to outperform advance polling should be taken [...]
