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NORFOLK, VA , February 14, 2014 ( LifeSiteNews.com ) – Yet another federal judge has  overturned  a state law banning same-sex “marriage,” as Judge Arenda Wright Allen declared Virginia’s law enshrining true marriage unconstitutional Thursday.  The state becomes the fourth to have a legislative or voter-approved measure banning gay marriage overturned by a federal judge. “The Court is compelled to conclude that Virginia's Marriage Laws unconstitutionally deny Virginia's gay and lesbian citizens the fundamental freedom to choose to marry,” Allen wrote in her  41-page decision , which  Mother Jones  called “incredibly moving.”  “Government interests in perpetuating traditions, shielding state matters from federal interference, and favoring one model of parenting over others must yield to this country's cherished protections that ensure the exercise of the private choices of the individual citizen regarding love and family.” “We have arrived ...

Gay Couple with child (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) There is a new and significant piece of evidence in the social science debate about gay parenting and the unique contributions that mothers and fathers make to their children’s flourishing. A study published last month in the journal Review of the Economics of the Household—analyzing data from a very large, population-based sample—reveals that the children of gay and lesbian couples are only about 65 percent as likely to have graduated from high school as the children of married, opposite-sex couples. And gender matters, too: girls are more apt to struggle than boys, with daughters of gay parents displaying dramatically low graduation rates. Unlike US-based studies, this one evaluates a 20 percent sample of the Canadian census , where same-sex couples have had access to all taxation and government benefits since 1997 and to marriage since 2005. While in the US Census same-sex households have to be guessed at based on the gender an...

Coat of Arms of Jorge Mario Cardinal Bergoglio (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) April 12, 2013 ( LifeSiteNews.com ) - Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio , now Pope Francis, did in fact propose "civil union" legislation as a "compromise solution" on the issue of homosexual "marriage" in 2010, according to John Allen of the National Catholic Reporter , a newspaper that frequently publishes attacks on Catholic doctrine . Allen personally traveled to Buenos Aires , where he says that three different unnamed sources confirmed to him the truth of the claim, which was made by several newspapers following the election of Bergoglio in March, including the New York Times . Two of the sources, according to Allen, were senior officials of the Argentina Episcopal Conference, of which Bergoglio was the head until his recent election.  Both officials "worked with Bergoglio and took part in the behind-the-scenes discussions as the conference tried to shape its posit...