A rally organized by the Sanctity of Marriage group drew both support and opposition last Saturday. A large part of the crowd was there to support Christian values and traditional marriage, but many were there in opposition to show their support of "same-sex marriage."
A Senate minority successfully blocked an amendment aimed at ending discrimination against "same-sex marriage" benefits for veterans Thursday. With the Supreme Court set to rule on "gay marriage," 53 senators voted for the amendment, seven shy of the 60 needed under the rules.
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The Russian Orthodox Church is severing ties with the Church of Scotland and France’s United Protestant Church, because those denominations have expressed approval for same-sex civil unions. The Russian Church has suspended ties with other denominations in the past over this issue.
Federal Judge Tydingco-Gatewood has ordered Guam to begin issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples. Attorneys representing the government of Guam said in a recent court document that "should a court strike current Guam law, they would respect and follow such a decision."
The North Carolina House has decided to put off overriding Gov. Pat McCrory's vetoed measure addressing government officials who don't want to perform "gay marriages" due to religious beliefs. The bill was listed on the House agenda Wednesday after McCrory vetoed it.
As we approach the Supreme Court's historic decision later this month on whether "same-sex marriage" should be legal nationwide, here's a rundown on the views of some presidential candidates for 2016. Most are expected to announce their campaigns later this year.
The chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court, Roy Moore, said he believes that if the U.S. Supreme Court rules in June that "homosexual marriage" is a Constitutional right, it "will destroy our country," and added that "there are people who would like to see this country destroyed."
A bill that would have eliminated marriage licenses in Alabama died in the House yesterday. "This bill does not destroy marriage," Rep. Greg Albritton said. "This bill does not denigrate marriage. This bill doesn't desanctify marriage because the state cannot sanctify marriage."
A Costa Rican judge has granted the first common-law "gay marriage" in Central America. On Tuesday morning, news broke that Gerald Castro and Cristian Zamora, a sodomite couple in the city of Goicoechea, north of San José, were granted a common-law "marriage" by the Family Court there.
According to Mat Staver, the church has not been defending the gospel. He says, "We tolerate a culture of promiscuity, divorce, and infidelity. It is time for the church to start teaching biblical sexuality, including natural marriage. Until then we will see religious liberties in America erode and secularism rule the day."
Yesterday, Liberty Counsel filed a motion asking the AL Supreme Court to reaffirm it's orders upholding Alabama’s marriage laws. Speaking of a judge who contradicted the court, Mat Staver said, "[She] has no more power to overrule the Alabama Supreme Court than she does to rewrite same-sex 'marriage' into the U.S. Constitution."
In a recent interview, House Minority Leader Rep. Nancy Pelosi said that "same-sex marriage" "is consistent with the dignity and worth we [Catholics] attribute to every person." She also stated, "To say that [homosexual marriage] endangers mainstream Christian thinking is so completely wrong."
Australia’s main opposition party has proposed a bill to legalize "gay marriage" in that country. Bill Shorten, leader of the Australian Labor Party, introduced the bill to Australia’s House of Representatives. He said, "Our laws should be a mirror reflecting our great and generous country and our free, inclusive society."
On Monday, the NC Senate voted 32-16 to override Governor Pat McCrory’s veto on a bill that would allow magistrates to opt out of performing marriages. The legislation now goes back to the Republican-controlled state House of Representatives, which passed it in February by a margin wide enough to override the veto.
In a recent Facebook post, Franklin Graham pointed to the persecution of those who support biblical marriage in Canada as a warning to the US. He said, "We need to realize that if our Supreme Court makes same-sex marriage the law in the United States, we will be in the same boat."
The Oklahoma Corrections Department has halted all weddings within prison walls until after a U.S. Supreme Court ruling on whether states have to recognize "gay marriages." "If same-sex marriages are ruled legal, then the policy will need to be changed. We will follow the law," spokeswoman Terri Watkins said.
Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum said on Sunday that the Supreme Court would not have the final word on "same-sex marriage" in the US. He said that it would be "important for Congress and the president, frankly, to push back when the Supreme Court gets it wrong."
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Mike Huckabee said Sunday that the president shouldn't follow a ruling that redefines marriage because the Supreme Court can't make law. According to Huckabee, subjecting the legislative and executive branches of the federal government to the judicial branch "defies everything there is about the three equal branches of government."
Saturday, several Sanctity of Marriage rallies took place across the State of Alabama to support marriage as defined by the Bible. About 65 people gathered on the campus of Whitesburg Baptist Church in Huntsville, and a similar rally took place on the steps of the Marshall County Courthouse in Guntersville.
The owners of Asher's Baking Company in Northern Ireland have decided to appeal a recent ruling that found them guilty of discrimination. They said, “We continue to insist that we have done nothing wrong as we have discriminated against no individual, but rather acted according to what the Bible teaches regarding marriage."
NC Gov. McCrory announced that he’ll veto a bill that would allow magistrates to opt out of performing marriages if they have a religious objection. He said, "No public official who voluntarily swears to support and defend the Constitution and to discharge all duties of their office should be exempt from upholding that oath."
A source within the federal government has informed the Center for Family & Human Rights that the White House is quietly moving forward with a policy change that will require charitable groups to accept "LGBT" applicants in order to qualify for government funding, even those groups that might have religious objections.
In a previously reported interview with Toy Perkins, Roy Moore commented on Ruth Bader Ginsburg's officiation of a "same-sex wedding." He said, "Now she's commenting on a case which is before her and under the judicial ethics of federal judges she can't do that...Congress has a check and a balance, and that's impeachment."