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Could we have imagined 50 years ago that marriage would be under all-out assault, and that we would be in a pitched battle to defend an institution so ancient, so fundamental, and so obvious? Would we have imagined it even 30 years ago? Yet that is where we find ourselves…but defenders of marriage are not without powerful allies. Read more »

Common threads of the tea party platform among all the groups are the concepts of fiscal responsibility, limited government, lower taxation, and national sovereignty, and these are quite important. But, when it comes to “social issues” like abortion and homosexual “rights,” some tea party leaders tend to shy away. Read more »

Gay and lesbian couples will be able to apply for a marriage license in the nation’s capital beginning Wednesday. But traditional marriage supporters are making a last minute effort to stop the new law, which was passed in December, from taking effect. Read more »

Lutherans who have left or are pondering their exit from the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America have put a name to the alternate church body they plan to form – North American Lutheran Church. A proposal for the new denominational body that is intended to provide a biblically faithful home for disaffected Lutherans was released Thursday, on the anniversary of the death of 16th century reformer Martin Luther. Read more »

Care Net Pregnancy Resource Center of Rapid City is sponsoring an evening with Rebecca St. James.  You can get more details about how you can attend here and here.
Rebecca is partnering with Care Centers across the nation in the fight for the unborn. This evening promises inspirational music, an incredible testimony, and a moving film [...] Read more »

Last weekend the San Francisco Chronicle “outed” Proposition 8 Judge Vaughn Walker as an active practitioner of the homosexual lifestyle. The revelation that Judge Walker apparently chooses to engage in homosexual conduct, if true, would explain much of his bizarre behavior throughout this trial. At every turn he’s displayed extreme bias in favor of his similarly situated homosexual activist plaintiffs. Read more »

Matt Barber, Director of Cultural Affairs with Liberty Counsel, released the following statement today on news that the San Francisco Chronicle has “outed” 9th Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Vaughn Walker as an active practitioner of the homosexual lifestyle. Judge Walker has presided over California’s Proposition 8 case filed by homosexual extremists who seek to manufacture a constitutional “right” to so-called “same-sex marriage.” Read more »

The final witness in the federal court battle over California’s voter-approved marriage definition finished giving his testimony Wednesday, but the closing arguments and the final ruling are still weeks away. On Feb. 26, Judge Vaughn Walker will call both sides to meet to arrange the dates for closing arguments to be delivered. Read more »

Wednesday’s testimony saw the cross-examination of marriage expert David Blankenhorn. Blankenhorn, a self-described liberal Democrat who usually advocates for homosexuals, nevertheless remains firm in his belief that marriage means one man and one woman. This man presents an exceptionally convincing case against redefining marriage. Read more »

Day 11, Tuesday, can be aptly described as an exercise in the pot calling the kettle black (or what’s good for the goose is somehow not good for the gander). The plaintiffs’ case, in some part, has hinged upon the premise that reasonable people reflect upon their viewpoints and sometimes change their opinions. Read more »

As we moved into the third week of the trial, there was a sense that the winds were about to shift and, shortly before noon on the 10th day, the winds did change. After two weeks of emotional appeals, persecution of religious beliefs, and experts who were unraveled by the cross-examinations of the ProtectMarriage.com legal team, the plaintiffs moved to what I would call a “document dump.” Read more »

Defenders of California’s constitutional amendment on marriage presented their first witness Monday after the plaintiffs in the critical trial closed their case following two weeks of hearings. To start things off, lawyers defending Proposition 8 called to the stand Claremont McKenna College professor Dr. Kenneth Miller, who testified as an expert on American politics and California politics. Read more »

Hawaii’s Senate has voted to extend the same rights, benefits, protections, and responsibilities of spouses in a marriage to “partners in a civil union” – both homosexual and heterosexual. Whether the House will vote on the bill, however, has yet been decided as House leaders are expected not to take up the measure unless they have a veto-proof two-thirds majority. Read more »

Friday marked the end of the second week of the latest assault on marriage in our country. With the attorneys for Gov. Schwarzenegger and Attorney General Brown literally sitting on the sidelines, the defense of marriage rests solely with Cooper & Kirk, the Alliance Defense Fund, and the entire ProtectMarriage.com legal team. Read more »

Thursday revealed a staggering amount of anti-Christian sentiments put forth in the plaintiffs’ case, in addition to their continued attack against the democratic process. Completing the cross-examination of Dr. Gary M. Segura, the professor of political science from Stanford, was the first order of the day. Read more »

The assault on the people’s voice continued Wednesday.A witness with no connection to California’s Proposition 8 was brought in to give emotional testimony that had no bearing on the case. Another witness tried to make the case that homosexuals were politically powerless. Read more »

Can a homosexual ever turn heterosexual? Though it’s been happening for thousands of years, to hear many homosexual activists tell it, it doesn’t happen. But a 41-year old homosexual man is telling about his sudden, surprising desire to become a father…and being interested in girls. Read more »

Why are we even having the marriage debate in court at all? After all, California has had this debate twice already–and rejected counterfeit marriage. This case is filled with a lot of emotionalism, but cases are supposed to be decided on the facts and the evidence, not on how someone feels about this or that. Read more »

A look behind the scenes of the trial of marriage, the Proposition 8 trial in California. Read more »

The best of the best at Dakota Voice last week, including: Prop 8 Trial: Democracy at Stake; Avatar Environmentalists Suicidal After Watching Movie; Sarah Palin Makes Debut on Fox News; Scott Brown Surges in the Race for Massachusetts; Time to Counter ‘Bait and Switch Christianity’; Media Make Themselves Look Stupid Trying to Bash Sarah Palin; and more! Read more »

The testimony Friday demonstrated why the Proposition 8 case should not be in federal court and should rather be left to debate in the public square. The voters of California had this debate in the fall of 2008, and a solid majority, more than 7 million Californians, wisely decided to add a marriage protection amendment to the state constitution. Read more »