Data Conversion - marriage

Florida Marriage Amendment Initiative Favored by Nearly 60% of Voters

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 23:34:15 +0000

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 [...]

Marriage makes babies

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 00:17:08 +0000

“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, [...]

Democratic National Committee gave $25,000 to defeat Calif. marriage amendment

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 00:03:08 +0000

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 [...]

Los Angeles Times confuses the ‘gay marriage’ issue

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 23:58:07 +0000

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 [...]

Cohabitation on the rise

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 01:31:20 +0000

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 [...]

California marriage advocates suing over amendment language change

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 01:14:19 +0000

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 [...]

Obama Opposes California Marriage Amendment While McCain Supports It

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 00:58:19 +0000

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 [...]

Florida Governor Crist Reaffirms Support for Amendment 2

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 00:49:18 +0000

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. [...]

As Marriage Declines, Church Attendance Falls

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 00:35:17 +0000

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 [...]

Ohio Ret. Lt. Col. John Mitchel Ohio Congressional Campaign 2010

Sat, 28 Jun 2008 02:58:00 +0000

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, [...]

California frontier of the moral battle against totalitarian gay politics

Sun, 15 Jun 2008 23:38:56 +0000

On Tuesday, June 17, the California Supreme Court’s decision to allow same-sex “marriage” takes effect and thousands of homosexual couples are expected to tie the knot this year. County clerks will be required by law to issue new gender-neutral marriage licenses. After the California’s Supreme Court claimed gays had a constitutional right to marriage, the [...]