Posts Tagged ‘gay marriage’

Help for county recorders offered as gay marriage begins in Iowa

The Alliance Defense Fund and Iowa Family Policy Center have offered free legal help to county recorder offices who wish to refrain from issuing gay marriage licenses on the basis of their personal religious belief or deeply held moral convictions. The groups have offered proposed policy language and offered to defend the policy for [...]


Conservatives, the bible and changing minds

The impetus to my second article on my trip to Des Moines was, unfortunately, driving by Wahlert High School in Dubuque, Iowa. Somewhere around noon on Earth Day there were a couple of dozen kids roaming around the grounds of the high school with their green shirts on presumably picking up trash to [...]


Iowa Bishops issue statement on Same Sex Marriage calling it destructive to children

In a very impressive missive on the reasons why traditional marriage should be recognized and defended, the Iowa Bishops have released a statement in response to the Iowa Supreme Court Ruling allowing gay marriage.
What impresses me the most is how the Bishops do not degrade or attack anyone who is not heterosexual, instead using [...]


Barney Frank calls Justice Scalia a “homophobe”

From the ‘unbelievable he was elected file:’
Barney Frank, chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, called the Justice Antonin Scalia a homophobe…

“At some point, [the Defense of Marriage Act] is going to have to go to the United States Supreme Court,” Frank said. “I wouldn’t want it to go to the United States Supreme Court [...]


Michael Steele shows true colors and kicks his Catholic Faith

There were concerns raised about Michael Steele’s pro-life views during his run for Chairman of the GOP. He assured everyone he was solidly pro-life and would be an ardent supporter of the pro-life plank of the Republican Party.
Then Mr. Steele is asked a few impromptu questions by a journalist and, when talking about [...]


Gay activists storm church

Did you hear about this on the news?
On Sunday, November 9, a band of about 30 gays stormed a church in Lansing, Michigan. Some were well dressed and were stationed inside Mount Hope Church; others were outside dressed in pink and black. The group of self-described homosexual anarchists, Bash Back!, claims the evangelical church is [...]


Florida, Arizona define marriage: 1 man, 1 woman

WASHINGTON, Nov. 5 (UPI) — Majorities of Florida and Arizona voters who cast ballots in Tuesday’s election said “yes” to measures to ban gay marriage in their states.
The question on the ballot asked whether Florida should define marriage as the legal union of one man and one woman as husband and wife, and provide that [...]


In Defense of Marriage: Archbishop Kurtz

Here is the link to the video of Archbishop Kurtz’s passionate defense of marriage. I think the embedding will work to the left…..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lh_81zsW6U8


Archbishop Gomez: ‘culture of life’ issues cannot be dismissed from public debate

San Antonio, TX, Oct 30, 2008 / 06:34 am (CNA).- Archbishop of San Antonio Jose Gomez has published a column in the San Antonio Express News lamenting the “troubling” absence of life and family issues in public debate. Defending the relevance of “culture of life” issues, he said they are among the “most fundamental concerns [...]


Biden defies bishops: supports gay marriage

On today’s episode of “Ellen,” Joe Biden told Ellen DeGeneres “that if I lived in California, I would vote against Proposition 8.” This initiative reads, “Only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California.” Yet in his debate with Sarah Palin on October 2, Biden said that “Barack Obama nor I [...]