Bishops Mobilize for Marriage
Posted by Tom McFeely
Monday, November 03, 2008 9:00 AM
(CNS)
The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has released a video on YouTube urging preservation of the legal definition of marriage as between one man and one woman.
“Marriage is not something we invent or change to suit our own purposes,” Archbishop Joseph Kurtz of Louisville, Ky., chairman of the U.S. bishops’ committee to defend marriage, explains in the video.
The Spanish version of the video,... READ MORE
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Prop. 8 Needs Money — Now
Posted by Tom McFeely
Monday, October 27, 2008 1:22 PM
(ProtectMarriage.com)
Supporters of California’s Proposition 8 to uphold the traditional definition of marriage warn the ballot measure will fail unless more money is donated immediately to the cause.
The ballot initiative seeks to amend the state constitution to define marriage as between only one man and one woman. If passed, it would invalidate last spring’s Supreme Court of California decision legalizing... READ MORE
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Biden Opposes Proposition 8
Posted by Tom McFeely
Thursday, October 23, 2008 8:22 AM
Courting the homosexual vote. (Ellen DeGeneres Show)
Democratic vice-presidential presidential candidate Joe Biden declared last year, “One of my avocations is theology.”
But as with the issue of abortion, the Catholic politician is earning failing grades regarding his comprehension of Church teachings about the nature of marriage.
Appearing Oct. 20 on lesbian comedienne Ellen DeGeneres’s talk show, Biden said “that if I lived in California,... READ MORE
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Connecticut Battle Begins
Posted by Tom McFeely
Friday, October 10, 2008 3:27 PM
Connecticut Supreme Court.
An article in the Register’s Oct. 19 print edition:
Connecticut Marriage Fight
Bishops Back Constitutional Convention
HARTFORD, Conn. — When Connecticut justices voted to force same-sex “marriage” on the state, they provoked a firestorm.
The Catholic bishops of Connecticut are backing a November ballot initiative that would change the state’s constitution in hopes of protecting... READ MORE
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More Judicial Activism
Posted by Tom McFeely
Friday, October 10, 2008 10:05 AM
(KRT Illustrations)
For the second time this year, a state supreme court has pre-empted the democratic process by ordering the legalization of same-sex “marriage.”
In a decision just announced by the Connecticut Supreme Court, Connecticut’s law limiting marriage to heterosexual couples has been ruled unconstitutional.
The court found that the law unconstitutionally discriminates on the basis of sexual... READ MORE
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Turn of the Marriage Tide
Posted by Tom McFeely
Thursday, October 09, 2008 6:57 PM
(KRT Illustrations)
There a signs of a big pro-marriage shift in California.
The Yes side is surging ahead in the campaign over the state’s Proposition 8, a ballot initiative to amend the state constitution to define marriage as a one-man, one-woman institution.
A poll conducted Oct. 4-5 by four California TV stations found the Yes side ahead 47%-42%, the San Jose Mercury News reported Oct. 7.
That’s up... READ MORE
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Look North, California
Posted by Tom McFeely
Wednesday, October 01, 2008 12:23 PM
Lesbian wedding ceremony in Canada. (AFP)
Homosexual activists campaigning against California’s ballot initiative to define marriage as a heterosexual-only institution claim there are no negative consequences to legalizing same-sex “marriage.”
Not true, say a pair of commentators from Canada who have assessed the adverse effects of Canada’s decision to legalize homosexual “marriage.”
According Canadian social policy... READ MORE
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