Today the U.S. Supreme Court accepted petitions to review two court decisions that challenge the constitutionality of marriage as the union of one man and one woman. The federal case, Windsor v. United States, involves the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). The second case, Hollingsworth v. Perry, deals with California’s marriage amendment, Proposition 8. Massachusetts […]
Justice Antonin Scalia warned that once the Supreme Court overturned state bans on sodomy, that same-sex “marriage” would soon be before the court. That day has now come, and we could learn as soon as Friday what the Supreme Court will do. The justices conferenced last week on cases pertaining to same-sex “marriage,” particularly concerning […]
DOMA decision appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court by Ben Johnson, LifeSiteNews.com Tue Jul 03, 2012 06:28 EST The roiling national debates over marriage and the Supreme Court may coincide, as the House of Representatives’ legal group has asked the High Court to rule on the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). On […]
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(NECN) – It’s another battle that could land in the Supreme Court, but on Wednesday it was fought in a lower court in Boston. Massachusetts, where gay marriage is legal, is challenging Congress’ Defense of Marriage Act, which denies marriage benefits to gay couples. So, is DOMA unconstitutional? Broadside guests attorney Janson Wu, of the […]
Friends of the Family, This morning, a federal appeals court in Boston heard arguments in the legal battle to strike down the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). I was there this morning, along with Andrew Beckwith, MFI’s new executive vice president. As you know, DOMA defines marriage at the federal level as the union […]
The two-year anniversary of ObamaCare was “celebrated” last week, but the real news is that the constitutionality of the healthcare takeover now stand before the Supreme Court of the United States which began hearing oral arguments this week. Justices grilled the Obama Administration Solicitor General about the law during Tuesday’s second day of arguments. The […]
Dear Friend of the Family, Last Friday, I attended the “Stand Up for Religious Freedom” rally on Boston Common, the local rally that coincided with rallies across the country. Thousands of Americans nationwide participated in these rallies as a way to demonstrate their opposition to the mandate from the U.S. Department of Health and Human […]
Dear Friends of the Family, It is a fulltime job to keep tabs on what our politicians are doing on Beacon Hill to hurt the family—casino gambling, transsexual rights, comprehensive sex education—and yet we have an administration in the White House that is waging their own war on the family at an even larger scale. […]