Archive for the ‘Marriage’ Category
“Legal Stranger” Given Parental Rights in Custody Case
Adoptive mother must share children with former roommate and girlfriend
By Nathan A. Cherry
Martinsburg, W.V. – Below is the story of a recent court decision in Montana where, for the first time, parental rights were given to a non-parent. Not just a non-parent, a “legal stranger,” as Alliance Defense Fund legal counsel Austin Nimocks stated it. This is more than frightening; this is a shocking picture of where our judicial system is headed as they seek to purposely play culture wars in cases involving former homosexual partners.
The Cloakroom » Hill Update: Targeting DOMA
From Tom McClusky writing on FRC Action’s The Cloakroom Blog:
Undermining DOMA
Senator Liebermann (I-Conn.) plans on holding a hearing tomorrow in his Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee in 342 Dirksen on his bill to expand federal benefits reserved for federal employees and their spouses to homosexual federal employees and their “partners.” This would be effectively neutralizing most of the Defense of Marriage Act, passed in 1996 by a large bipartisan majority and signed by President Bill Clinton.
Witnesses for the bill include John Berry, Director of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM). Mr. Berry, an open homosexual activist, is best known for his recent comments on how the Obama Administration will undermine marriage piece by piece using legislation such as Senator Lieberman’s. The other witness is Dr. William Hendrix, Global Leader, Gays, Lesbians and Allies at Dow Chemical (GLAD).
via The Cloakroom » Hill Update: Targeting Domiciles and DOMA, and Sen. Boxer’s Hot Flashes.
Change is in the air….10.19.09
We are grateful for the thousands of readers that have made the Engage Family Blog the best pro-family, policy blog in West Virginia. In just two years, the Engage Family Blog has nearly quadrupled in readership.
Because it has become so popular, we are putting the final touches on a new blog that we hope will be bigger and better. Some changes we have planned include a new domain, integrating with familypolicywv.com, and a new podcast link with iTunes.
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Stay tuned – the change you’ve hoped for comes on Monday.
POLL: Homosexuality is Morally Wrong, Majority Oppose Gay Marriage
Recent polling shows that most Americans still oppose homosexuality/gay marriage.
By Nathan A. Cherry
Martinsburg, W.V. – A recent poll by the Pew Research Center is telling the story mainstream news and other left-leaning organizations don’t want you to hear: the majority of Americans are still opposed to same-sex marriage. The poll concludes;
“Of 4,013 adults…shows that 49 percent say that homosexuality is morally wrong, 9 percent morally acceptable and 35 percent say it is not a moral issue. That’s little changed from a February 2006 Pew poll, when 50 percent said it was morally wrong, 12 percent morally acceptable and 33 percent said it was not a moral issue.”
“Among races, blacks in the Pew poll were most likely to say homosexuality is morally wrong (64 percent morally wrong, 5 percent morally acceptable), followed by whites (48 percent, 8 percent, respectively) and Hispanics (43 percent, 15 percent).”
“The poll also found that among all adults, 53 percent oppose “gay marriage” and 39 percent support it. Blacks again led the way in opposition, with 66 percent saying they oppose changing the definition of marriage; 52 percent of whites and 49 percent of Hispanics said likewise.”
The Threat to Religious Freedom: What Politico Didn’t Print
Candi Cushman at Focus on the Family Action’s Drive Thru Blog writes the following after being quoted in Politico regarding her and Focus Action’s objection to (1) the President’s address to the Human Rights Campaign, (2) the nomination of Chai Feldblum, and (3) the continued rule of Safe and Drug Free Schools czar, Kevin Jennings.
Candi tells the rest of the story:
Let’s take the three events one at a time:
President Obama’s speech to the Human Rights Campaign. Among other things, President Obama pledged to eradicate a federal law defending traditional marriage. We need only look to Massachusetts, the first state to legalize full-fledged gay marriage, to understand the threat this poses to both parental rights and religious freedoms. Parents in that state are now being told they can’t exempt their 2nd graders from lessons about same-sex marriage—even if it conflicts with their most deeply held religious convictions.
The intolerance of same-sex marriage advocates was on display for all to see during the debate over California’s Prop. 8, which added wording to the state constitution defining marriage as only between a man and a woman. Prop. 8 supporters were subjected to vehement blackballing and even physical attacks. Church buildings were defaced and some people lost their jobs because of their stance.
Activist Judge in Texas Highlights Need in West Virginia
By Nathan A. Cherry
Martinsburg, W.V. – Did you hear the one about the arrogant activist judge in Texas that had the audacity to declare that both a state amendment and statute defining marriage as between one man and one woman along with the federal DOMA law are unconstitutional in order to preside over a gay marriage divorce case? Unfortunately this is no laughing matter.
When two gay men married in Massachusetts and now living in Texas sought a divorce, the state Attorney General stepped in and declared that no judge in Texas had jurisdiction to hear the case since Texas does not recognize same-sex marriage. But that didn’t stop family law judge Tena Callahan from ignoring the Attorney General but also from declaring that Texas’ state constitutional amendments defining marriage between one man and one woman were unconstitutional according to the Constitution of the United States. (Click here for full story)
President to Address Nation’s Largest LGBT Lobby Group
While politicians in Charleston play down the threat to the redefinition of marriage in West Virginia, President Obama prepares to address the Human Rights Campaign’s (HRC) 13th Annual Dinner this Saturday night.
According to several reports, HRC – the nation’s leading pro-homosexual lobbyist group – has been lobbying in recent days for legislation permitting gays serving openly in the military, extending hate crimes based upon one’s “sexual orientation,” and the repeal of the Federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). While several such legislative initiatives will have varying degrees of success, it is clear where the President stands concerning DOMA. According to Citizenlink.org:
Obama has made many promises to gay activists. One of those promises came at the signing of a memorandum granting same-sex benefits to federal employees.
“Among the steps we have not yet taken, is to repeal the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA),” he said. “I believe it is discriminatory, I think it interferes with state’s rights, and we will work with Congress to overturn it.”
The debate over whether or not there is a concerted effort to redefine marriage nationwide is over. There is no legitimate reason to prevent West Virginians from determining for themselves under which definition of marriage they will consent to be governed.
To learn more about what you can do to defend marriage in West Virginia, visit WV4Marriage.com.
Washington Times: ‘Serious questions about Jennings keep piling up’
From today’s Washington Times about Office of Safe and Drug Free Schools czar, Keving Jennings of StopJennings.org fame:
The Obama administration isn’t adequately vetting important presidential appointees. When it was exposed that former “green jobs czar” Van Jones believed in crazy conspiracies about the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, it was questionable whether anyone had even bothered to Google individuals before they received presidential appointments. In that case, the White House strategy was to refuse to answer questions and hope interest faded away. That approach worked for most of the media, which carried water for President Obama’s scandal-plagued pick. Stonewalling scandal is not what Americans were expecting from an administration that promised to usher in an “unprecedented level of openness in government.” Instead, a pattern of presidential obfuscation is developing.
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