Rhode Island: "Is likely to be a loss," confesses Brown. The House approved SSM, and a Senate Committee voted for it this week. All five Republican Senators approved it.
Minnesota: A bipartisan group of legislators introduced the bill, but it has not yet passed the House or Senate. NOM and Minnesota for Marriage organized 1,500 people outside the State Capitol demonstrating against it. A tough fight ahead.
Read moreHow hard Christians should actively fight against same-sex marriage is a matter for wisdom. But that we must not support it, I would like to persuade you, is a matter of biblical principle. To vote for it, to legislate it, to rule in favor of it, to tell your friends at the office that you think it's just fine-all this is sin.
Read moreAll this is visible in the changing work patterns of our country, resulting in real macro-economic consequences. Fifty years ago family life and the economy were quite different.
Read moreAfter electing and re-electing a black man as President, America's younger generation is unaware of how vicious segregation was in King's day. This week marks the 50th anniversary of the release of King's "Letter from a Birmingham City Jail." He was arrested for leading demonstrations to desegregate Birmingham, without a permit.
Read moreAs the New York Times recently announced, evangelicals, or at least some of their leaders, are rallying to the immigration cause. "It is very remarkable the degree to which there is a consensus," National Association of Evangelicals (NAE) official Galen Carey told the Times, which reports that "no prominent pastor" has spoken out against the immigration effort.
Read moreThe magnitude of the defeat suffered by moral traditionalists will become ever clearer as older Americans pass from the scene. Poll after poll shows that for the young, homosexuality is normal and gay marriage is no big deal-except, of course, if one opposes it, in which case one has the approximate moral status of a segregationist in the late 1960s.
Read moreThe institution of marriage is going to change, and it should change. And again, I don't think it should exist. And I don't like taking part in creating fictions about my life. That's sort of not what I had in mind when I came out thirty years ago.
Read moreThe first paragraph of the FCC Public Notice states that the FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski "directed the Enforcement Bureau to focus its indecency enforcement resources on egregious cases."
It then asks public comment on how to "treat isolated expletives." This is the Obama Administration, elected mainly by singles, backing away from traditional family morality.
Read moreYes, the financial crash of 2008 is to a significant extent to blame for the fact that the national debt is now 90 per cent of GDP. But the trajectory under Tony Blair, whom Conservative MPs cheered at his last performance in the House of Commons as Prime Minister in 2007, was already upwards.
Read moreMany deny that there is an affirmative war against Christianity and Judeo-Christian values, but they apparently haven't heard or read the words of some of the New Atheists -- or anti-theists, as some call themselves -- who conflate all religions and blame them all for most of the evil and war in the world.
Others scoff at the notion that Christianity and Christian values are being assaulted, arguing that it's absurd to believe a majority belief system could be under attack.
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