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• DeMint: Gay marriage "destructive to our society"

  —Indigo Journal

  In an interview out today with Bloomberg, US Senator Jim DeMint outlines his plans to abolish Medicare, privatize Social Security, and extols the virtue of  personal freedom, right up until the point where it makes him personally uncomfortable:
  

  "Marriage is a religious institution. The federal government has no" [...]

  Posted: December 14, 2009, 11:23pm EST
  

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• Sanford split could be final by February

  —The Palmetto Scoop

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  DIVORCE FINAL HEARING SET FOR FEB. 26

  After 20 years of marriage, Gov. Mark Sanford and his wife Jenny may be officially divorced in just over two months.

  A final hearing date has been set for Feb. 26 after First Lady Jenny [...]

  Posted: December 14, 2009, 10:25am EST
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• Monday’s Morals – Episode 26

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  Last week, I asked a question about marriage vows and whether or not having an affair or in any way breaking one’s marriage vows should be punished as a form of perjury. If you didn’t answer last week, please do, here. But as they say, it takes two to tango. First to play [...]

  Posted: December 14, 2009, 8:07am EST
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• So sorry, Mrs. Ryan, we're closing your church because we had to pay ad men in San Francisco to keep your son from marrying here in Maine

  —Waldo Lydecker's Journal.

  The campaign  to overturn marriage equality raised $2.7 million. Of that, $550,000 came from Catholic dioceses and archdioceses. Of that, $220,000 came from the Diocese of Maine, where Bishop Richard Malone ordered a special collection that netted $86,000 on one Sunday. And all while closing parishes because the Diocese can't' [...]

  Posted: December 13, 2009, 2:19am EST
  

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• Two down, nine to go

  —Waldo Lydecker's Journal.

  Remember the Manhattan Declaration? A while back a bunch of evangelical Christianists and Catholic hierarchs doubled down on their opposition to abortion and same sex marriage.
  
  Now Good As You has an update that indicates the American Catholic Church will climb into bed with just about [...]

  Posted: December 11, 2009, 6:46pm EST
  

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• Mark gets to stay in office, Jenny gets to be an author and media personality.

  —Waldo Lydecker's Journal.

  From Joe.My.God:
  Earlier this week the South Carolina legislature decided not to pursue removing Gov. Sanford from office, saying they couldn't act on another person's personal immorality. They were singing a different song in 2007 when they ratified a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage.' [...]

  Posted: December 11, 2009, 3:21pm EST
  

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• Mark Sanford’s Statement On Divorce

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  S.C. Governor Mark Sanford issued the following statement Friday after his wife, S.C. First Lady Jenny Sanford, announced that she was filing for divorce after twenty years of marriage …

  While it is not the course I would have hoped for, or would choose, I [...]

  Posted: December 11, 2009, 12:04pm EST
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• Jenny Sanford’s Statement On Divorce

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  S.C. First Lady Jenny Sanford issued the following statement Friday morning regarding her twenty-year marriage to S.C. Gov. Mark Sanford …

  As so many of us know, the dissolution of any marriage is a sad and painful process. It is also a very personal and private one. [...]

  Posted: December 11, 2009, 10:00am EST
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• They especially hate sins that are profitable

  —Waldo Lydecker's Journal.

  A conservative journalist objects to his college's use of gay-baiting and easily provable falsehood:
   If someone is telling you the gays are coming to destroy your marriage and take your children, they probably want your your money. [...]

  Posted: December 08, 2009, 12:48pm EST
  

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• More New York Stories

  —Waldo Lydecker's Journal.

  How much was it worth to the NY state senators to prevent marriage equality?
  
  $210 million dollars.
  
  The weird part is, under New York law, same-sex marriages from other states where it's legal are recognized in New York. Somehow those marriages don't undermine marriage.
  
  The weirdest' [...]

  Posted: December 07, 2009, 11:39pm EST
  

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• Affirmative Action in Infidelity Needed

  —Eye of Polyphemus

  Tiger woods is a racist according to this article because all his alleged mistresses are white. No judgment on how woods has evidently violated his sacred marriage vows on numerous occasions. It is just that he has not thrown a bone to the sisters out there.
  
  I have [...]

  Posted: December 07, 2009, 12:22pm EST
  

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• Monday’s Morals – Episode 25

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  Recently, I reported the story of a man with a plan to help preserve the sanctity of marriage: he wants to do so by introducing a plan to ban divorce in his home state of California. While it may have been only semi-serious, it does lead to an interesting question. Not [...]

  Posted: December 07, 2009, 8:25am EST
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• "We don' need no stinkin' constitooshun"

  —Waldo Lydecker's Journal.

  AP:
  
  ALBANY, NY - A Democrat who this week voted against legalizing homosexual "marriage" in New York says that for him there can be no separation of church and state. (See related article)
  State Sen. Ruben Diaz, who helped defeat the measure, is a Pentecostal minister [...]

  Posted: December 05, 2009, 6:32pm EST
  

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• Tell it to Ted Haggard

  —Waldo Lydecker's Journal.

  A new bio of Christianist Rick Warren underscores the joyfulness of marriage he defends from homosexuals:
  
  Through interviews with Sheler, Rick and Kay Warren disclosed that they were not attracted to each other nor had feelings for each other when they agreed to be married. Instead, they believed [...]

  Posted: December 04, 2009, 12:34pm EST
  

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• Why do Christianists hate democracy?

  —Waldo Lydecker's Journal.

  
  
  
  Bishop Harry Jackson, the homo-hating Christianist of Washington, D.C., is upset that democracy has not given him the result he wants- banning marriage equality. His solution?
  
  In future races, religious people are going to start going after people's political careers. In D.C., some [...]

  Posted: December 04, 2009, 11:39am EST
  

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• Renegotiating a Prenup After Marriage? Who Knew?

  —Patrick's Place

  Tiger and Elin Woods are now reportedly not only in marriage counseling but prenuptial agreement renegotiations. I always thought the point of a “prenup” was to decide such matters before the marriage ceremony.  That, I thought, was why it was called pre-nuptial. Silly me.  The point of a prenup, at least as [...]

  Posted: December 03, 2009, 10:30pm EST
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• When will the right time be?

  —Waldo Lydecker's Journal.

  David Link noticed an interesting thing about the marriage equality debate in the New York State Senate.
  
  
  There wasn't one.
  Only a single senator, Ruben Diaz, Sr., stood up to champion a No vote.  Everyone else on his side was silent in the chamber.  Diaz’s oratorical contribution did not' [...]

  Posted: December 03, 2009, 4:25pm EST
  

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• New York stories: a cautionary tale

  —Waldo Lydecker's Journal.

  Box Turtle Bulletin:
  
  The Vincent Ciampa exampleTimothy KincaidDecember 2nd, 2009On February 11, 2004, Massachusetts State Representative Vincent Ciampa, Democrat, voted to define marriage as “one man one woman”.Ciampa feared no one – he could do what he wanted. He served in a Democratic safe seat and had done so for [...]

  Posted: December 03, 2009, 9:43am EST
  

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• New York Stories

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  A New York senator considers how the defense of marriage involves standing up for game shows that give away wives. This is a remarkably cogent summation of the vacuity of opposition to marriage equality.
  
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  Posted: December 03, 2009, 8:14am EST
  

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• Unmarried Super Adventure Club Slasher Legislator says no to same-sex marriage

  —Waldo Lydecker's Journal.

  
  
  
  
  
  New York state senator Hiram Monserrate- one of seven Democrats who crossed the aisle to vote with all the senate Republicans against marriage equality, isn't married. He's an evangelical with ties to Scientology.
  
  
  He has a girlfriend, though. Her name' [...]

  Posted: December 03, 2009, 12:07am EST
  

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• 1% a year: hate's slow hemorhage

  —Waldo Lydecker's Journal.

  In the state of Washington, the November referendum results on a proposal to undo the legislature's "all but marriage" domestic partnerships law have been certified. The opponents garnered 46.85% of the vote.
  
  Twelve years ago, on a simple housing and employment nondiscrimination referendum, they got 59.7% against.[...]

  Posted: December 02, 2009, 11:11pm EST
  

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• What New York's Rejection of Gay Marriage Means

  —Eye of Polyphemus

  Democrats have a razor thin one seat majority in the new York Senate, but the measure still failed 38-24. There was not a single Republican vote in favor of legalizing gay marriage. In the People’s republic of New York, no less.
  
  Fin the name of full disclosure, I [...]

  Posted: December 02, 2009, 7:28pm EST
  

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• So what constitutes "just" discrimination?

  —Waldo Lydecker's Journal.

  Tough times for the gay tribe: sometimes democracy doesn't give you what you want. Today the NY state senate torpedoed marriage equality legislation passed twice this session by the lower house of the legislature. Every Republican state senator voted against it.joined by a handful of Democrats who have been leveraging' [...]

  Posted: December 02, 2009, 5:13pm EST
  

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• NY Senate Hands Sodomites Crushing Defeat on Same-Sex "Marriage" Bill

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  Victory for Democrat Sen. Ruben Diaz, who led tireless campaign to defend natural marriage.
  
  From LifeSiteNews
  By Peter J. Smith
  
  At about 3:00pm on Wednesday afternoon the New York State Senate voted to overwhelmingly reject legislation that would have legalized same-sex "marriage."
  
  The measure, [...]

  Posted: December 02, 2009, 4:12pm EST
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• Gotta Watch Those Angry Mistresses!

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  While I’m on the subject of the sanctity of marriage, I can’t help but chuckle at Bradley Jacobs’s appearance on CBS’s The Early Show this morning. Jacobs, the senior editor for Us Weekly magazine, is talking about his magazine’s publication of accusations by another woman claiming to be Tiger Woods’s [...]

  Posted: December 02, 2009, 9:25am EST
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• Want to Protect Marriage? Ban Divorce!

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  It may have begun as a joke, but it’s gaining some serious support. A California man listened to voters who wanted same-sex marriage outlawed claim that the state’s Proposition 8 was needed to “protect the sanctity of marriage.” So continuing with that theme, he’s proposed a ban on divorce.  This story makes [...]

  Posted: December 02, 2009, 5:27am EST
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• And he's barely squeezing under the wire for that

  —Waldo Lydecker's Journal.

  In honor of Savonarola's Hate Sidebar practice of referring to same-sex unions as "Marriages," Waldo will henceforth refer to Daniel J. Cassidy as a "Christianist."
  
  Honorable mentions were "Racist," "Hatemonger,", "Bigot" and "Homophobe." [...]

  Posted: December 02, 2009, 12:37am EST
  

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• Baptists who stand for marriage but can't be bothered to marry are upset that couples barred from marriage might get benefits the unmarried Baptists would merit if they were actually married.

  —Waldo Lydecker's Journal.

  The Southern Baptists- despite their reputation  for dogmatism and inflexibility- are a remarkably adaptive lot. Back in the 1960s I can recall the railing against hippies and long hair. But by the mid 1970s you saw SoBap men swanning into church with pincurl perms and- for those who could manage [...]

  Posted: December 01, 2009, 12:43am EST
  

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• Somewhere, Ted Haggard is laughing

  —Waldo Lydecker's Journal.

  In time-worn Christianist fashion, Senator Ensign says his marriage is stronger than ever. Like his colleagues in the C Street Adultery Club- Mark Sanford and David Vitter- he won't be resigning.' [...]

  Posted: November 30, 2009, 6:06pm EST
  

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• The ultimate family values idea, and DeMint's nowhere to be seen. WTF?

  —Waldo Lydecker's Journal.

  Surely this is a bandwagon Senator Jim DeMint will want to get in front of: a straight, married, Catholic father in California says Prop 8- banning marriage equality- didn't go far enough.
  
  If the vows say till death do you part, then he says, let's ban divorce. And' [...]

  Posted: November 30, 2009, 3:17pm EST
  

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