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San Francisco archbishop: Marriage equality ‘is like legalizing male breastfeeding’
A Catholic bishop who was instrumental in creating California’s Proposition 8 says that same sex marriage is a natural impossibility and granting marriage rights for LGBT couples “is like legalizing male breastfeeding.” Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone recently told the Catholic Herald that the “truth is clear” that it “discriminates against no…
Chicago cardinal: Same sex marriage an ‘affront’ to society
Chicago’s Cardinal Francis George and his six auxiliary bishops wrote a letter on Tuesday calling same sex marriage “an affront to reason and the common good of society.” According to the Chicago Tribune, the clergyman urged parishioners to lobby their elected representatives against the Religious Freedom and Marriage Fairness Act,…
Two-thirds of Britons support same sex marriage
Nearly two-thirds of British people support plans to introduce gay marriage, according to a poll published on Thursday which showed growing backing for the reform. Some 62 percent of those questioned for the poll in the Guardian newspaper said same-sex couples should be allowed to marry, against 31 percent who…
Pope says future of mankind at stake over same sex marriage
Pope Benedict XVI on Friday weighed in on a heated debate over gay marriage, criticising new concepts of the traditional family and warning that in the fight for the family, mankind itself is at stake. “In the fight for the family, the very notion of being ? of what being…
Illinois legislature to vote on same sex marriage in January
The Illinois legislature is likely to vote on a bill to legalize same sex marriage during the lame-duck session in January, according to the Associated Press. Illinois state Rep. Greg Harris (D) and state Sen. Heather Steans (D) held a conference call on Thursday to announce they would seek to…
George Will: ‘The opposition to gay marriage is dying… it’s old people’
Conservative columnist George Will suspects that the Supreme Court could support equal rights for LGBT people because “quite literally the opposition to gay marriage is dying… it’s old people.” On Friday, the Supreme Court announced that it would take up cases on California’s Prop 8 same sex marriage ban and…
Rick Warren: Same sex marriage like punching a guy in the nose
Megachurch pastor Rick Warren on Tuesday night said that same sex relationships would still be sinful even if they were natural. “It wouldn’t bother me if there was a ‘gay gene’ found,” he told CNN host Piers Morgan. “Here’s what we know about life,” Warren continued. “I have all kinds…
Maher: Republicans are ‘vaginaphobes,’ should probably ‘shut up’ about rape
Bill Maher started off Real Time on Nov. 9 by conducting a quick recap of the elections, noting that there will now be six openly gay men in Congress, a bisexual woman and an openly gay female senator, while pot was legalized in two states. “We’re becoming more like Canada,…
Spain upholds same sex marriage after challenge
Spain’s constitutional court upheld Tuesday a 2005 law allowing homosexual marriage and adoption after an appeal, a court official said. Spain’s ruling conservative Popular Party had appealed the law, passed seven years ago by a Socialist government. Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy said his party objected to use of the word…
Minnesota conservative groups recruiting black churchgoers in same sex marriage fight
Religious black voters in Minnesota have become a prized constituency in the fight over a proposed state amendment banning same sex marriage. The Minnesota Star-Tribune reported Tuesday that conservative groups supporting Amendment 1 are recruiting black churchgoers in their efforts to add the amendment, which would define matrimony as being…
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