We’ve just found out the Minnesota House will be voting this Thursday on a bill to redefine marriage: The Minnesota House will hold a final floor vote on whether to legalize same-sex marriage Thursday. …The Senate is expected to take up the measure soon after. DFL Gov. Mark Dayton is a supporter of same-sex marriage [...]
Richard Wolf’s lengthy profile in USAToday of leaders in the pro-marriage movement is well worth the read. He interviews both Brian Brown our president and Maggie Gallagher our co-founder: “…At the tip of the spear is the National Organization for Marriage, led by Brian Brown, a father of seven who travels the nation speaking at [...]
NOM’s Chairman John Eastman released this statement earlier today: “An article by the Associated Press has been mischaracterized by The Huffington Post to grossly misrepresent my views on adoption. I believe that couples who adopt children are heroes and do a great service to society, and to the children they adopt. I strongly believe, based [...]
Kellie Fiedorek is litigation counsel for Alliance Defending Freedom and wrote last week in Town Hall in conjunction with National Marriage Week: Many of us will recall the song from Sesame Street that begins, “One of these things is not like the other.” The song conveyed to viewers that not everything, or every relationship, is [...]
Rod Dreher writes at The American Conservative: Orson Scott Card is one of the best-selling science fiction writers alive. He is also a devout Mormon who opposes same-sex marriage. A group of pro-gay comics fans is up in arms over the fact that DC has hired Card to write a new Superman series. The Guardian [...]
Check out what happened at one of the Chick-fil-A’s last Wednesday! (The lyrics are by Tim Hawkins)
The Christian Post: Conservative radio and TV host Mike Huckabee and the National Organization for Marriage are calling on people to eat at Chick-fil-A on Wednesday to support Dan Cathy, the company’s president, who is being attacked by gay activists for saying in recent interviews that he supports traditional marriage. “Imagine if folks all across [...]
Doubling-down: The Australian arm of the Seattle-based coffee giant Starbucks on Tuesday endorsed gay marriage. “Core to who we are and what we value as a company is our belief in equal treatment of our partners [employees] and our customers,” the company said in a statement. “It is with this in mind that Starbucks Australia [...]
Maine’s Morning Sentinel: National opponents of same-sex marriage say they will be actively involved in Maine and the three other states that probably will vote on the issue this fall. During a conference call Tuesday, Brian Brown, president of the National Organization for Marriage, said his organization will “be very focused on Maine,” but he [...]
The AP: A federal judge in Manhattan joined a growing chorus of judges across the country Wednesday by striking down a key component of a federal law denying benefits to partners in a gay marriage. U.S. District Judge Barbara Jones said the federal Defense of Marriage Act’s efforts to define marriage “intrude upon the states’ [...]
WordsMatter2012.com put out this video asking if Obama’s “evolution” on marriage was sincere:
Kalley Yanta at the Minnesota Marriage Minute explains that no judge except Judge Walker in California has ever reached the radical conclusion that marriage laws fail a rational basis test. “In fact,” she says, “The U.S. Supreme Court has specifically rejected the idea that there is a federal right to same-sex marriage, and that was [...]
A catholic blogger writes about her evolution against gay marriage: Like Obama, I have also evolved on the marriage debate. I suspect a lot of people journeyed a similar path, and even more so, I suspect a lot more people are evolving now. Here’s how I went from not really caring to wide-eyed activism. “Let’s [...]
Catholic News Agency/EWTN World News: Priests in Spain voiced support for a local bishop after a city council adopted a motion banning him from official city events over his remarks criticizing dangerous behaviors within the gay community. On May 15 the Alaca city council passed the motion, which also called for Bishop Juan Antonio Reig [...]
The Las Vegas Review-Journal Capital Bureau: President Barack Obama’s support for gay marriage was bound to become a campaign issue for Nevada legislative races in November’s general election. That’s where Republicans, who generally don’t like the idea, and Democrats, who mostly back it, will duke it out. But just two weeks after the presidential announcement, [...]
