Compliments of Leo:
A constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage in Iowa would start out with the lead, 50-43. Voters under 65 are about evenly divided on such a proposal, but seniors support it by a 62/29 spread, providing the overall margin in favor of it. Independents would start out voting for it 53/39 and while 24% of Democrats say they would vote for it, only 18% of Republicans say they would vote against it. Read more…
by Zac Alstin
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A British Member of Parliament has given voice to the idea that religious organisations should be forced to perform same-sex marriages or civil unions. In a letter to Prime Minister David Cameron, Conservative MP Mike Weatherly wrote: “As long as religious groups can refuse to preside over ceremonies for same-sex couples, there will be inequality. Such behaviour is not be [sic] tolerated in other areas, such as adoption, after all.” Read more…
Policies of the federal government under the Obama administration have ignited a blaze of concerns about fundamental religious liberties in America.
Archbishop Timothy Dolan, president of the US bishops conference, wrote a letter to the president recently. Read more…
California Republican Party Votes to Maintain One Man-One Woman Marriage In Party Platform
SAN MARCOS, CA – The Ruth Institute, a project of the National Organization for Marriage Education Fund, commended the California GOP today in response to their vote at the September 16-18 convention to maintain a strong defense of traditional marriage: Read more…
This article was first published at Mercatornet.com September 16, 2011.
Last week’s hearing in the California Supreme Court on whether the proponents of Prop 8 have standing to defend the measure in court seemed to go well for the defenders of natural marriage. But another issue lies beneath the surface of the court arguments. The issue is what kind of people are the marriage redefiners: Ted Olsen, Rob Reiner, and the American Foundation for Equal Rights? Read more…
Take note of the parts in blue at the bottom.
Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2011, was a good day for marriage.
North Carolina legislators voted to send a marriage amendment to the people of that state in 2012.
And in New York, the first clear Democratic casualty of gay marriage emerged: David Weprin. Read more…
“The North Carolina legislature did the right thing in trusting the people of North Carolina with the future of marriage in 2012,” said Brian Brown, president of NOM. “The National Organization for Marriage pledges to help!”
WASHINGTON – Brian Brown, president of NOM, reacts to the news that the North Carolina legislature voted by a three-fifths majority to refer a marriage amendment to the people of North Carolina in 2012. Read more…
By DAN BILEFSKY
Molly Blooms, a Victorian-accented Irish bar in Sunnyside, Queens, recently raffled off a free same-sex wedding reception, with a three-hour open bar, a D.J., a photographer and a horse-drawn gilded carriage to deliver the winning couple to the festivities. The bar’s owner thought the idea would be good for business and for the largely working-class and immigrant neighborhood. Read more…
This won’t be a controversial article on this blog!
Every child deserves to begin life with a mother and father. Gay couples cannot provide the family support they need.
A bigot is someone who refuses to see the other point of view. A number of columnists in Australian newspapers have smeared opponents of gay marriage as bigots, yet by and large they refuse to see the other point of view — and that means the point of view of the child. Read more…
Despite a recent victory in New York, same-sex marriage is far from being mainstream.
In June the New York State Assembly approved same-sex marriage, 33 votes to 29, making New York the sixth state out of fifty to issue marriage licences to gay couples. The press of the entire world conveyed the impression that gay marriage has become mainstream in American culture and therefore it is only a matter of time before it is recognized in the whole country. Read more…
From One News Now:
In the wake of yesterday’s hearing before the California Supreme Court, a pro-family leader is optimistic that supporters of Proposition 8 will have the right to defend the traditional marriage measure in court. A majority of California voters passed the referendum in 2008, but homosexual activists are fighting to get that vote nullified. Read more…
By guest blogger, Susan
I think having a sister is a wonderful thing, and I would love for everyone to be able to enjoy the blessings and benefits of a sister relationship. But some people, through no fault of their own, and due to no defect, simply cannot do so: if your parents did not have a female child in addition to you, you can never have a sister, no matter how much you might want one. You can have close and deeply rewarding relationships with other women your age, but none of these can ever be your sister. You may protest all you want that another woman is “like a sister to me”; that woman will never be so in the eyes of the law (e.g., she will not share in any inheritance from or responsibility for your parents). Nor would ordinary people seriously refer to her as your sister. Read more…
State-Wide Tour for Traditional Marriage Meets Incredible Support in Illinois
In some areas of Chicago, there was so much supportive honking for God-ordained marriage that TFP volunteers could hardly hold a conversation on the sidewalk — really unbelievable. Read more…
by Charlie Butts
Yet another major corporation has fired a well-known leadership and teambuilding trainer for writing a book on how same-gender “marriage” causes harm.
Dr. Frank Turek is the author of Correct, Not Politically Correct: How Same-Sex Marriage Hurts Everyone. First, Cisco Systems canceled a training contract with Turek even though the sessions had nothing to do with his views on same-gender marriage. Now, Bank of America has done the same — and in both cases, because one person complained. Read more…
A lot of people aren’t going to like this. But I commend the Aussie’s for being vocal about their feelings of the matter. I wonder if they need bodyguards now, or people to keep an eye on their cars so their tires don’t get slashed. Maybe that only happens here. If nothing else, their accents are fun to listen to.
http://www.mercatornet.com/family_edge/view/9554/
“A small minority who wish to reorder society in their own vision.”
by Ed West
As they say in Hackney, when God closes a door he sometimes smashes open a window. The UK riots, bad as they are, may be a turning point for Britain – the shock we needed to change course. We can no longer ignore the existence of people over whom the rest of us have little control, and who fear no figures of authority.
Fathers are, of course, major authority figures, and the issue that was first raised by Daniel Patrick Moynihan in 1965 may be up for debate once again. As that unlikely moral crusader Guido Fawkes has pointed out (with a hat-tip to Andrew Neil), in areas like Tottenham up to 80 per cent of children are raised without a father. Where there are few other figures of male authority around, that is deeply problematic.
The effect on children is one thing: various studies show fatherlessness to be a serious disadvantage, while others argue that taking aside socio-economic status this makes little difference (and certainly fatherless children raised by highly educated women suffer far fewer drawbacks). But what about the effect on the men themselves?
When we discuss “fatherlessness” in urban areas what we are talking about, effectively, is polygamy. And countless studies have shown that, the more polygamous a society, the more aggressive its males. Polygamous hunter-gather societies are absurdly violent.
Why? Because where male parental investment is low, the qualities that define a good male mate are strength, aggression and status. Where male parental investment is high, the most important quality becomes monogamy – because without it a woman’s children will starve. These qualities are partly hereditary, and on the male side this tendency for deadbeat lotharios to produce unfaithful sons was noted long before science dared to tread its feet into the field of evolutionary psychology. Science still cannot tell us to what degree male monogamy is influenced by nature; “allele 34” may influence vasopressin, the hormone associated with monogamy in male mammals, but then it may not (and even if it influences behaviour, men can still be “trained”).
This is why the traditional good guys in romantic fables, fairy tales, novels and films display the characteristics associated with monogamy and male parental investment; women in romantic comedies always end up marrying the Mark Darcy character rather than the Daniel Cleaver, even if they are attracted to the latter. In contrast the heroes of sagas, epic poems and action films, aimed at male audiences, are alpha male polygamous types; European civilisation begins with Achilles and Agamemnon having a remarkably childish argument over who gets a slave girl.
“The ‘Ruthies’ are so ahead of the curve.”
Advocates for extending marriage rights to same-sex couples think they are on a roll with New York State’s action. Lawmakers and lobbyists cut a midnight backroom deal to push a marriage bill through Albany. They would not dare to submit this issue to New York voters. Some of them remember how state voters turned back the ERA in the Empire State thirty years ago. Read more…
Really? Isn’t this a little much?
An online push is under way to pressure the producers of “Sesame Street” into having Bert and Ernie get married.
More than 900 people have signed a petition about the pair of platonic puppets on Change.org as of early Wednesday. Read more…
“Nothing so terrible has happened in Massachusetts or Canada, so let’s just have same sex marriage.”
Marriage is the social institution that connects generations to each other. Redefining marriage changes the basic structure by which the generations relate to one another, including who counts as a parent. We will not experience the most significant consequences of redefining marriage in the first five years. The most significant consequences may not be the most immediately obvious. It will take a full generation, a full thirty years or more, before society will feel the full impact of redefining marriage.
People making this argument don’t understand the full social significance of marriage. They are ignorant of how social systems actually work.
“Nothing so terrible has happened” is truly an idiotic comment.
Congress, represented by former solicitor general Paul Clement, has filed two briefs in one of the cases challenging the Defense of Marriage Act in a federal court in New York. One is a memorandum providing legal reasons the court should deny the ACLU’s motion for summary judgment. The second is a memorandum with reasons the court should grant the Bipartisan Legal Advisory Group’s motion to dismiss. Both are excellent, and I particularly appreciate the way the second brief explains the state’s interests related to procreation. Read more…
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