heritage.org - 30 days ago
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Supporters of Proposition 8 in California have been subjected to harassment, intimidation, vandalism, racial scapegoating, blacklisting, loss of employment, economic hardships, angry protests, violence, at least one death threat, and gross expressions of anti-religious bigotry. Arguments for ...
topics.cnn.com - 29 days ago
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Prop. 8 opponent: We want full civil marriage
rights More than a week after voters in California,...
Arizona and Florida passed ballot initiatives outlawing same-sex marriage, thousands of people across the country protested the bans in simultaneous ...
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Same-Sex Marriage: News & Videos about Same-Sex Marriage
sfgate.com - 30 days ago
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The sponsors had sought to keep the documents
while challenging the order to turn them over in...
an appeals court. But in a ruling late Friday, Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker of San Francisco said backers of Proposition 8 had failed to show ...
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Judge denies Prop. 8 backers delay on memos
huffingtonpost.com - 22 days ago
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Almost exactly a year ago, I was standing
in a small house in Bloomington, Indiana receiving volunteers...
for Obama's get out the vote effort on election day. By the evening, I would be in Grant Park in Chicago, listening to a Presidential ...
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Obama and LGBT Rights: A Year Since Election Day
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'The Price of Prop. 8'
Utah Policy - Politics, Communication & Government Relations —
... In a newly released study, The Heritage Foundation's Thomas M. Messner documents the ways in which "[s]upporters of Proposition 8 in California have been subjected to harassment, intimidation, vandalism, racial scapegoating, blacklisting, loss of employment, economic hardships, angry protests, violence, at least one death threat, and gross expressions of anti-religious bigotry. ... [I]ndividuals and institutions that support marriage as the union of husband and wife risk paying a price for that belief in many legal, social, economic, and ...
50 Million Frenched Men Can’t Be Wrong
Unqualified Offerings —
Rod Dreher does an end-zone celebration in the first quarter of a losing game: Do I think it always will be? No, I do not, in part because homosexuality is far more accepted by young Americans, and in part because heterosexual America has already conceded the philosophical grounds on which traditional marriage was based (which is why younger Americans are more comfortable with gay marriage). Nor do I believe that the voters are always right. But unless you’re prepared to call more than half the country bigots — and I have no doubt that many, perhaps most, gay marriage supporters are, and let that self-serving explanation suffice — ...
Winning with Marriage -- By: Kathryn Jean Lopez
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EDITOR’S NOTE: This column is available exclusively through United Media. For permission to reprint or excerpt this copyrighted material, please contact Carmen Puello at cpuello@unitedmedia.com.
Opposing gay marriage is a loser of a position. That, at least, is what everyone seems to say, all along the political spectrum. Everyone, that is, except voters. Maggie Gallagher, president of the National Organization for Marriage, has been my personal political hero for the last ...
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