by Aaron Deslatte, Orlando Sentinel A majority of voters, close to the 60 percent needed for passage, favor writing a same-sex-marriage ban into the Florida Constitution, according to a new Orlando Sentinel poll. But the state’s electorate appears far more skeptical of a ballot measure that would eliminate more than $8 billion in school property taxes and [...]

“As citizens of California,” Catholics need “to avail ourselves of the opportunity” to overturn the the California Supreme Court’s May 15 ruling legalizing same-sex marriage, said the California Catholic Conference in a statement issued last week. The California Catholic Conference is the public policy arm of the state’s Catholic bishops. The way Catholics can overturn the ruling, [...]

The Democratic National Committee has given $25,000 to help defeat a proposed constitutional marriage amendment in California, despite the fact that a significant percentage of Democrats in the state are expected to support it this fall. The DNC’s donation was made to Equality for All, a leading homosexual activist group in the state seeking to keep [...]

By R. Albert Mohler Jr., Baptist Press The fact that the Los Angeles Times favors “same-sex marriage” is not a new revelation. To the contrary, the paper has positioned itself in support of “same-sex marriage” for some time. Furthermore, no informed reader will be surprised to find that the paper’s editorial position is quite liberal. Given our [...]

The number of opposite-sex couples who live together has jumped from less than one million 30 years ago to 6.4 million in 2007, according to new federal data. Cohabiting couples now make up almost 10-percent of all opposite-sex U.S. couples, married and unmarried. The same data also found that 48.5-percent of cohabiting couples had never [...]

Supporters of Proposition 8, the California marriage amendment, filed a lawsuit yesterday to block a change made by California Attorney General Jerry Brown to the language of the measure’s ballot title and summary. The petitions circulated to qualify the initiative for the ballot said the measure would amend the state Constitution “to provide that only [...]

By Thaddeus M. Baklinski As the California Marriage Amendment debate heats up Barack Obama and John McCain have made clear their respective positions on the issue. Two weeks after the California Supreme Court announced its decision to allow same-sex couples to “marry”, opponents of same-sex marriage succeeded in placing on the November ballot a proposed constitutional amendment [...]

From a barber shop chair in Tallahassee, Florida Governor Charlie Crist on Monday reaffirmed his support for the Florida Marriage Protection Amendment to define marriage as the union of one man and one woman. Joe Follick of the New York Times Florida Bureau in Tallahassee reported reported the Governor’s comments in today’s Lakeland Ledger. [...]

by Devon Williams, associate editor of CitizenLink Daily Update A dramatic decline in marriage, particularly among young adults, has led to a decline in church attendance over the last three decades, according to a study by Robert Wuthnow, a sociology professor at Princeton University. Men are 57 percent less likely to regularly attend church if they are [...]

In a response to a previous post, John Mitchel said he planned to run again for a seat in the US House of Representatives in 2010. John Mitchel is a retired US Air Force officer who has been building momentum in Ohio politics. Although he lost to the groomed successor of outgoing Congressman Dave Hobson, [...]