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Heads I Win, Tails You Lose
How Scalia’s Prophecy Became a Moral Crisis
One year after the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision on the Defense of Marriage Act, this much is clear: Justice Antonin Scalia is a prophet.
Back in 2003, when the court handed down the decision in Lawrence v. Texas, striking down all criminal statutes against homosexual acts, Scalia declared that the stage was set for the legalization of same-sex unions. That was 2003.
“Today’s opinion dismantles the structure of constitutional law that has permitted a distinction to be made between heterosexual and homosexual unions, insofar as a formal recognition in marriage is concerned,” wrote Scalia.
He was proved to be …
Are All Young People as Ignorant as the Mainstream Press Suggests
It serves the strategic purposes of the Left to lead the public to believe that there exists no one under 40 who believes marriage is inherently sexually complementary and who believes that volitional homosexual activity is always immoral. Recognizing the human predisposition to follow the crowd and the concomitant discomfort with marginalized non-conformity, the Left also seeks to have people believe that “progressive” assumptions about homoerotic activity are on the “right side of history.” Of course, what is au courant today is often found to be profoundly ignorant and even evil later. Unfortunately, because history is nothing more than the …
Portlandia Sharia: The Purge Widens
Usher In A Redefinition of Marriage, Usher Out Religious Liberty
Thoughts on the Minnesota Marriage Amendment
by John Piper –DesiringGod.org
On May 21, 2011, the proposed Minnesota Marriage Amendment passed the House of Representatives by a vote of 70 to 62. This means that the question will be put on the ballot in the 2012 election.
If the amendment passes in November of next year, Article XIII will be amended to include the words, “Only a union of one man and one woman shall be valid or recognized as a marriage in Minnesota.”
The question submitted to the voters will be: “Shall the Minnesota Constitution be amended to provide that only a union of one …
Fox News Chicago’s Bias Evident in “Civil Unions” Segment
Story link: MyFoxCHICAGO.com (The video has been moved to Fox’s archives)
This “news” report from Chicago Fox News is typical of how the bias of the dominant media trumps journalistic objectivity and balance. While I think Fox’s Political Editor, Mike Flannery has some good political insights and I am sure he is a nice enough fellow personally, the segment above is indicative of how the media play to one side of a debate instead of remaining neutral.
To his credit, Flannery interviews our good friend and pro-family attorney Peter Breen of the Thomas More Society. But notice that Flannery …
