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Brian Brown in NRO: African-American Pastors in Democratic Illinois Show that Redefining Marriage Is Not Inevitable

Our President Brian Brown writes in NRO today: Illinois is one of the biggest and most important states in the nation. It’s President Obama’s home state. Democrats have a super-majority in both houses of the legislature. Governor Pat Quinn is a prominent supporter of so-called same-sex marriage, as is the mayor of Chicago, Rahm Emanuel […]

Anderson: Gay Marriage is Anything But Inevitable

Last week Ryan Anderson responded to the latest efforts to cut short the marriage debate by declaring SSM “inevitable”: Still, no one can deny that Americans’ support for marriage is not what it once was. This is largely because we have done an insufficient job of explaining what marriage is, why marriage matters, and what the […]

If Gay Marriage Is Inevitable ...

Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse asks, if gay marriage is so inevitable, why is its progress always made possible by political favors, etc? “…When I was in Springfield testifying before a committee in February, I witnessed the lobbying being done by the advocates for redefining marriage. Individual legislators who had not committed one way or the […]

UK Independence Party: Lawsuits Against Churches "Inevitable" with Gay Marriage Law

LifeSiteNews: If churches are forced by new legislation or by civil suits to conduct homosexual “marriage” ceremonies against their beliefs, it would constitute “a piece of tyranny by which the rights of hundreds of thousands, millions even, of people of faith … will be ruthlessly trampled upon,” said the United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP). The […]

Second Circuit Ruling Makes U.S. Supreme Court Ruling Inevitable On the Defense of Marriage Act

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: October 18, 2012 Contact: Elizabeth Ray or Jen Campbell (703-683-5004) Washington, D.C.—Brian Brown, President of the National Organization for Marriage (NOM) released the following statement today in response to the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling that the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) violates the Constitution’s equal protection clause: “This is […]

Prof. Morse on Why California's Three-Parent Law Was Inevitable

Prof. Jennifer Morse writes in The Public Discourse that “The supposed need for California’s SB 1476 flowed directly from the drive to normalize same sex parenting and recognize same sex unions.”: Can a child have three parents? If California State Senator Mark Leno has his way, children in California will be able to have three […]

Rich Lowry: Gay Marriage Is Not Inevitable

Rich Lowry is the editor of National Review: “…History is littered with the wreckage of causes pronounced inevitable by all right-thinking people. The failed Equal Rights Amendment looked inevitable when it passed Congress in 1972 and immediately 30 states ratified it. Opposition to abortion that was supposed to inevitably wither away is as robust as […]

UK Telegraph's Stanley: Hollywood Trying to Make Gay Marriage Inevitable

The UK Telegraph’s Tim Stanley on Hollywood trying to make gay marriage culturally inevitable as the legal and political attempts to redefine marriage falter: On Saturday night, Google and YouTube will be live-streaming the premier of “8,” a play about the federal trial that overturned a California law banning gay marriage. It’s based on court […]

William Duncan: Is Gay Marriage Inevitable?

William Duncan in NRO’s The Corner: A common refrain in the debate over same-sex marriage is that we ought to support the idea as soon as possible in order to be on the right side of history (every day in every way, we’re getting equaler and equaler) but this “inevitable” idea just can’t seem to […]

Diaz Corrects The Record: Gay Marriage is NOT Inevitable -- It's the Republican's Fault

The MSM always mines marriage advocates’ words to find the message point they think will hurt. We were with Sen. Diaz at the capitol yesterday and what he was clearly communicating is: if gay marriage comes, it’s not because it’s inevitable, it’s because the Republicans caved. He’s not capitulating, he’s fighting mad. His statement makes […]

Not “I” But “We”: Rabbi Jonathan Sacks’ Parting Witness to the Power of Marriage and Family

With the recent passing of Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, Judaism has lost one of its leading lights and the world has lost one of its most powerful moral voices. Described by American University Professor Akbar Ahmed as “one of the great sages of the Abrahamic faiths,” Rabbi Sacks was an international religious leader, philosopher, theologian, author, […]

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Hawaii, Please Contact Your Legislators Today

Dear Marriage Supporter, We’ve all been incredibly moved to see the tremendous outpouring of support for marriage at the grassroots level all across the state of Hawaii. The rally last week at the statehouse was incredible — a reported 10,000 people attended! And thousands more have submitted testimony in opposition to SB 1, the proposed […]

Undoing the Myth of Inevitability

Kellie Fiedorek at the Alliance Defending Freedom has a great piece in American Thinker this morning as to why states’ laws and constitutional amendments defining marriage as one man and one woman are completely constitutional and should not be overturned by the US Supreme Court despite efforts by those who would redefine marriage.  She writes… […]

Like a Stone, NOM Marriage News

Dear Marriage Supporter, “Sank Like a Stone” — that’s how same-sex marriage faired in Australia this past week. Australia held elections for Prime Minister the other day, but it was as much a referendum on whether the Aussies would redefine marriage or not. Former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd nailed his hopes of winning to a […]

You've Been Framed, NOM Marriage News

Dear Marriage Supporter, Prof John Eastman, Chairman of our board, is one sharp legal eagle. Watch him take on and demolish the idea that the Supreme Court has authorized county clerks in Pennsylvania and other states to just hand out ‘marriage’ licenses to gay couples lawlessly, without even the cover of a court order. Watch […]