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Who should we blame for gay ‘marriage’? It’s not who you think

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January 6, 2014 ( Public Discourse ) - Last November marked the twentieth anniversary of the  Religious Freedom Restoration Act . At an event hosted by the  Newseum  and the Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty , RFRA’s champions shared stories of how the statute came into being and the long odds it had to overcome. Though no one was resting on his or her laurels, there was a general sense of a job well-done. And then  Douglas Laycock , one of the primary architects of RFRA, began to speak. He warned that millions of Americans view religious liberty as their enemy because they resent religion’s interference in their sex lives. Even though RFRA is a “super statute,” it will offer religious believers little protection if the nation turns against religious liberty. Statutes can be repealed. Courts can empty them of their meaning. Laycock’s warning may seem overwrought, but consider just a few news items. In New Mexico, multiple organs of state government have said that a 

Evangelicals less likely to support gay ‘marriage’ than they were 10 years ago

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Español: Intercambio de anillos entre los novios (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) WASHINGTON, D.C. , July 16, 2013 ( LifeSiteNews.com ) – While most Americans have become radically more amenable to the homosexual political agenda over the last 10 years, the nation's most faithful practicing Protestants bucked the trend. Evangelical Christians actually became more opposed to redefining marriage since 2003, according to a recent poll. According to the poll, some 93 percent of evangelicals believe marriage should be defined as the union of one man and one woman, and 98 percent believe homosexual “marriage” is immoral. Both measures increased by three percent over the previous decade. The Barna Group , which has tracked the question for 10 years, took its most recent poll in late June, following the  Supreme Court decisions relating to gay “marriage”  and the  federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) . Overall, the poll found that Americans felt a “growing, but still hesitant