A Maryland voter writes to the Baltimore Sun: …there are several other persuasive reasons why Gov. Martin O’Malley’s same-sex marriage bill is not a good idea. Inscribed in the heart of all of us by nature is the primary purpose of marriage between a man and a woman — procreation and raising children. Same-sex couples [...]
Senator Grisanti is “feeling the heat”, Local News 4 reports: Bravo, marriage defenders! Your efforts are helping us put on notice the Albany politicians who betrayed marriage for money!
Erik Erickson explains the election upset in NY-9: “…the voters in NY-09 rejected David Welprin’s vote in favor of gay marriage. Yes, yet again we see a reliably Democrat area rebel against Democrats pushing gay marriage.”
The Associated Press just declared the special election in NY-9 a victory for Bob Turner, who is currently leading pro-SSM David Weprin by over 6%. This is the first time the seat has been held by a Republican since 1923. We also know this is a huge victory for marriage — more from us on that [...]
299 out of 512 precincts reporting: Turner: 21,857 (53%) Weprin: 19,071 (46%) We should be able to call this by the end of tonight.
Prof. Robin Wilson of the Washington and Lee University School of Law contributes to the SCOTUSblog symposium on marriage: Very little is to be gained by Professor Singer’s one-hundred-percent-victory-or-none-at-all stance. Where robust exemptions have not been provided, marriage equality efforts have failed. Moreover, under our proposal same-sex couples receive the services they need from individuals [...]
Via the Judicial Watch press release: Judicial Watch announced today that it filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit on August 29, 2011, against the Obama Department of Justice (DOJ) on behalf of the Family Research Council (FRC) for records related to the DOJ’s decision not to defend the constitutionality of the Defense of [...]
In the PBS News Hour, David Blankenhorn of the Institute for American Values (and Elaine Tyler May at the University of Minnesota) comment on new US Census Data on marriage in America: “…we are in the middle of a definable long-term shift away from the authority of the institution. The most fundamental sign of this, [...]
The Des Moines Register: There’s no connection at all between Iowa’s debate over gay marriage rights and the death of Waterloo teen Marcellus Andrews, the governor said today. “I think it’s inappropriate to try to link these two,” Republican Gov. Terry Branstad said during his weekly press conference at the Capitol. A reporter said the [...]
AP: Catholic Charities plans to appeal a judge’s decision allowing the state to stop working with the group on adoptions and foster-care placements, an attorney for the not-for-profit agency revealed Monday. Peter Breen said the group will ask for a stay of Sangamon County, Ill., Circuit Judge John Schmidt’s Aug. 18 ruling that sided with the [...]
NOM Chairman Maggie Gallagher writes at NRO: A story relayed to me by one of the Prop 8 trial participants: After Judge Walker announced he would videotape the trial but only for his own personal use, one of the expert witnesses scheduled to testify dropped out. Why, given that the videotape would be sealed? “I’ve [...]
In the First Things blog On The Square: The vote in New York did not represent the end of a movement, but it did, just maybe, mark the beginning of one. In the wake of the vote I heard from many friends, most of them young, who took the Empire State vote as a call [...]
Kathryn Lopez in National Review: Chuck Donovan is a man with a plan. A longtime advocate of family-friendly public policy, and senior research fellow at the Heritage Foundation’s DeVos Center for Religion and Civil Society, he has come up with “A Marshall Plan for Marriage: Rebuilding Our Shattered Homes.” Donovan discusses the peril to marriage [...]
Andrew Cohen, who has served as chief legal analyst and legal editor for CBS News and won a Murrow Award as one of the nation’s leading legal analysts and commentators, writes in The Atlantic: The Human Rights Campaign’s misguided case against Paul Clement’s law firm ignores the basic tenets behind the counsel of law The [...]
