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These are the top items at Dakota Voice last week, thanks to you the readers.
If you missed one the first time around, or just want to re-read one or more in your Sunday leisure, now is your chance.
Arlington Section 60: The Saddest Acre in America – From a video report on Section 60 in Arlington [...] Read more »

A disturbing picture of judicial activism is shaping up over President Barack Obama’s Supreme Court pick, Sonia Sotomayor.
By now many of us have heard the despicable statement Sotomayor made in which she made it clear that she expects the courts to “make policy,” usurping the role of the legislative and judicial branches (see video below).
She also provided a disturbing ruling in Didden v. [...] Read more »

Reprinted by permission of the Christian Post
By Lillian Kwon
Christian Post Reporter
Tue, May. 26 2009 01:50 PM EDT
The California Supreme Court issued a ruling Tuesday upholding Proposition 8, the state’s constitutional amendment defining marriage as between a man and a woman.
The court ruled 6-1 that the amendment was not an illegal constitutional revision by the people [...] Read more »

Reprinted by permission of the Christian Post
By Nathan Black
Christian Post Reporter
Tue, May. 26 2009 11:20 AM EDT
President Barack Obama announced Tuesday morning federal Judge Sonia Sotomayor as his nominee for the Supreme Court.
If confirmed, Sotomayor, who grew up in the South Bronx, would be the first Hispanic and third female justice seated on the country’s [...] Read more »

The California Supreme Court, in its almighty and infinite benevolence, has decided to allow democracy and Proposition 8 to stand.  The text of the decision can be read here.
California voters voted in November 2008 to overturn the California Supreme Court’s May 2008 judicial activism and restore the state’s recognition that marriage is between a man [...] Read more »

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By Lawrence Jones
Christian Post Reporter
Tue, Apr. 14 2009 08:35 AM EDT
For the second time in less than a week, hundreds of traditional marriage supporters rallied on Monday outside the Iowa Capitol to protest the state Supreme Court decision to allow gay marriage.
Rally speakers told a crowd huddled under umbrellas [...] Read more »

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By Katherine T. Phan
Christian Post Reporter
Mon, Apr. 06 2009 02:01 PM EDT
Iowa pro-family groups are moving swiftly to respond to the state Supreme Court’s same-sex marriage ruling, urging legislative action that would put the issue before voters as early as 2011.
On Friday, the Court overturned the 1998 Defense of [...] Read more »

Homosexual activists are taking their famed “tolerance” to a whole new level and are using Google Maps to identify and target donors to California’s successful defense of marriage, Proposition 8.
According to WorldNetDaily, a website called Prop 8 Maps combines Google Maps technology with a list of the names, donation amount and location of anyone who donated [...] Read more »

President Barack Obama has had trouble with several of his nominations since taking office. Several of his nominees have had issues with taxes, ethics, and more. 
But some of the people Obama wants to serve in the Justice Department–the department charged with upholding the nation’s laws–may be the most disturbing. 
For a number of years Americans have [...] Read more »