Last week on Public Discourse, Rida Fozi presented an Islamic perspective of marriage: While Islam opposes same-sex marriage, its opposition to it and to President Obama’s stance is not a matter of hate or bigotry but a matter of principle. God Almighty states in the Quran on the creation of Adam and Eve, “It is [...]
The Clarion Ledger: A state legislator is asking authorities to investigate death threats allegedly made against him and his family related to his online comments concerning same-sex marriage. “We got several death threats on Saturday left on the answering machine,” said Rep. Andy Gipson, R-Braxton. Gipson had posted May 10 on his Facebook account his [...]
Frank O’Keefe writes to the editors of the Baltimore Sun: “…It is clear by now to anyone who has observed this controversy that proponents of same sex marriage are more interested in the re-definition of marriage than they are in the attainment of marital normalcy as regards the law. The law could easily have been [...]
Ireland’s Independent: “…In 2009, Brendan Dempsey, the southern regional president of the Society of St Vincent de Paul (SVP) said the absence of fathers from the lives of children was set to cause “huge problems”. Echoing what Alesha Dixon had to say, he said that in some housing estates in Cork nine out of 10 [...]
From the archives, proof that President Obama has been exposed to a cogent argument on behalf of marriage at least once: in a debate with Alan Keyes in 2004. This video has been viewed upwards of 250,000 times:
NOM co-founder Maggie Gallagher participates in a series by The Daily Beast where readers can ask prominent thinkers anything they want. In this video, she answers a reader who mistakenly thinks there is no threat to religious liberty posed by redefining marriage:
NOM co-founder Maggie Gallagher participates in a series by The Daily Beast where readers can ask prominent thinkers anything they want. In this video, she explains how her experiences as a single mom helped shape her views about marriage:
The Associated Press: Once a bright spot for President Barack Obama, North Carolina is now more like a political migraine less than four months before Democrats open the party’s national convention in Charlotte. … When Democrats announced the choice in February 2011, they said selecting the Southern city signaled Obama’s intent to fight hard for [...]
NOM’s Political Director Frank Schubert on the ongoing political fall-out from Obama’s marriage flip flop: “…Frank Schubert, political director for the National Organization for Marriage, which opposes gay marriage, said Obama’s opinion will continue to have ramifications as November’s elections close in, particularly for Democrats who don’t share his view. “I think he’s scrambled the [...]
NOM co-founder Maggie Gallagher participates in a series by The Daily Beast where readers can ask prominent thinkers anything they want. In this video, she answers a common question: “what harm has redefining marriage caused?”
WAPT local news reports that “Pastors across Jackson lashed out at President Obama’s comments supporting gay marriage”:
Minnesota For Marriage: The Minnesota North District of The Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod (LCMS) voted unanimously to “support, and promote, whenever and wherever possible, the passage of the Marriage Protection Amendment on the November 6, 2012 ballot.” The resolution was passed by pastors and laypersons from each congregation at the Minnesota North District Convention [...]
Local WREG news reports: Memphis pastors want Obama to know that the same-sex marriage issue is “hijacking the civil rights movement.”
Lauren Gores of NewsyPolitics filed a report on YouTube back in February about the poster child for same-sex marriage in California getting a divorce that we found interesting:
This video is going viral on YouTube, with almost 1.3 million views. It aims to inspire Catholics to remember some issues are “not negotiable” — including the fact that “marriage should be reinforced, not redefined”:
