Gary Bauer tells Focus on the Family: Marriage has been, for thousands of years of Judeo-Christian civilization, the uniting of one man and one woman. Once you say it’s two men, as Sen. Santorum warned, then why not make it…
Finding Obscenity in Sodomy Laws
Knight Ridder columnist Leonard Pitts Jr. wrote last week: Five years ago, in an apartment in Houston, an obscene act was committed. And it wasn’t sex. Pitts finds the obscenity in an antigay bigot’s filing of a false police report…
Taking the Court System Out of Marriage?
Matt Daniels, president of the Alliance for Marriage, told Fox News’ Brit Hume on June 30: The [Federal Marriage Amendment] says two things. Marriage in the United States is between a man and a woman and let the people of…
In a July 2 news brief e-mailed to CitizenLink subscribers, Focus on the Family gripes that the Chicago area has begun to treat gay domestic partnerships fairly — charging gay couples the same $30 certificate fee that married couples are…
Focus on the Family’s Moral Relativism
Claiming that most Americans oppose gay “marriage,” Focus on the Family promotes moral relativism with a definition of marriage based on the whims of public opinion. A recent Gallup Poll found 55 percent of Americans oppose same-sex “marriage”, while only…
Remember the Go-Gos song? Vacation All I ever wanted Vacation Had to get away Vacation Meant to be spent alone I’ll be back Sunday night, hopefully with messages utilizing all the helpful e-mails that I’ve been receiving from readers this…
GOP’s Frist Follows Democratic Mentors?
Democratic Socialist Thomas Scott Tucker has penned the following. When Bill Clinton signed the vindictive Defense of Marriage Act under cover of darkness — I have always agreed with the critics of Clinton that cowardice and opportunism mark both his…
Here are some of the organizations that have criticized Senate majority leader Bill Frist for supporting an antigay Federal Marriage Amendment that would undermine states’ and churches’ rights. Human Rights Campaign Gay and Lesbian Medical Association Log Cabin Republicans
Musical Ex-Gays And Churches That Hate
In “Musical Ex-Gays” earlier today, I neglected to note how Chambers meant well. I was referring to his appeal to ultraconservative churches not to damn gays to hell outright. But if a church is so judgmental toward any group, then…
In Christianity, there are thousands of sins over which a church could perform litmus tests, firing or evicting anyone who fails the test. An Illinois conservative Roman Catholic church tolerated sins of wealth, power, greed, sloth, and marital breakdown among…