"How will my same-sex marriage harm your marriage?"
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“Your same-sex marriage will do nothing to impact my marriage. But your marriage is not what we’re debating in our nation. We are debating whether it is wise to radically and permanently redefine marriage in our nation for everyone. And that is quite significant indeed.” Why not legalize gay ‘marriage’? (part 1)
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What Child Is This?
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And that is the real tragedy of the story here from the AP: how it seeks to imitate what a family ought to be, and how deeply it fails in that regard.
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Calif. Court Declares Proposition 8 Unconstitutional
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A federal appeals court on Tuesday declared California’s same-sex marriage ban to be unconstitutional, putting the bitterly contested, voter-approved law on track for likely consideration by the U.S. Supreme Court. A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 2-1 that a lower court judge correctly interpreted the U.S.
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Judge: Christian Group Can't Bar Same-Sex Ceremony on It's Property
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“Judge Solomon A. Metzger of the Office of Administrative Law ruled last Thursday that Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association violated state anti-discrimination laws when it did not allow a lesbian couple to use its boardwalk pavilion in 2007.”
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Gay marriage, religion issues in NY clerk race
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Longtime town clerk Rose Marie Belforti handles building permits, hunting licenses and government records for people in this farm-heavy Finger Lakes community.Marriage licenses are a different story, because of her faith.Shortly after New York became the sixth and largest state to sanction gay marriage this summer, Belforti told town board members her Christian beliefs preclude her from issuing licenses to same-sex couples.
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Prop 8 Backers Want Gay Judge's Ruling Thrown Out
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“Court records state that Walker, who ruled it unconstitutional to keep the voter-approved ban known as Proposition 8 on the books, should be disqualified from deciding anything in this particular same-sex marriage case because of his long-term partner of the same sex.”
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