Good news this week out of France. In his travels, both as an Air Force pilot and missionary, MFI President Kris Mineau has had the pleasure of meeting wonderful Christian men and women all over the globe. Recently, friends of his from France sent word that the well-organized protests against homosexual marriage in their country had mobilized over 1,000,000 people […]
Additionally, Andrew was quoted by the Boston Globe: A state organization that has advocated against gay marriage, the Massachusetts Family Institute, said it hopes the Supreme Court will uphold both the Defense of Marriage Act and the California ban on same-sex marriage. “At issue in these cases is, ultimately, the question of whether the government […]
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 […]
Voters in four states will get to do what the citizens of Massachusetts never got the chance to: vote on the definition of marriage. Maine, Maryland, Minnesota and Washington all have the issue of same-sex “marriage” on the ballot. Without a marriage vote here in the Bay State, we must turn our prayers and our […]
Just last month a study came out of the University of Texas, Austin that gave a death blow to the radical homosexuals. The study showed that children of homosexual parents were worse off financially, mentally, and relationship-wise than those with married heterosexual parents. There is a difference between children of married, heterosexual parents and same-sex […]
On Monday, Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council had lunch with Governor Romney in Baton Rouge. They discussed issues of concern to social conservatives, including the economic importance of marriage. Gov. Romney had read a recent piece by Jason DeParle which appeared in the New York Times over the weekend about the expanding economic disparity between […]
From The Washington Times – Sunday, June 10, 2012 Two studies released Sunday may act like brakes on popular social-science assertions that gay parents are the same as — or maybe better than — married mother-father parents. “The empirical claim that no notable differences exist must go,” University of Texas sociology professor Mark Regnerus said […]
Last week, Isabel Sawhill of the Brookings Institution wrote in the Washington Post ( no bastion of conservatism) that former Vice President Dan Quayle was right about Murphy Brown and unmarried mothers. You may remember his family values speech that he delivered as the 1992 campaign was heating up: “Bearing babies irresponsibly is simply wrong,” […]
The Christian Civic League of Maine (CCLM) and the National Organization for Marriage (NOM) announced recently that they have joined forces to form Protect Marriage Maine, and will lead the campaign against the proposed initiative redefining marriage in Maine that is expected on the ballot this November. “We are pleased to bring together these key […]
According to a report from the Associated Press, the sponsor of a bill to repeal same-sex “marriage” in New Hampshire has proposed giving voters a chance to weigh in through a non-binding ballot question on whether the state should restore a 2007 civil unions law. State Rep. David Bates said his proposal would repeal same-sex […]