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Chris Christie: Clerks must perform same-sex ‘marriages’ regardless of their religious beliefs

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Governor of New Jersey at a town hall in Hillsborough, NJ 3/2/11 (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Chris Christie is not known for nuance. This time, he has turned his fiery personality loose on county clerks and other officials who have religious objections to performing same-sex “marriages.” In a tone usually reserved for busting teachers' unions, Christie told clerks who hold traditional values, “You took the job, and you took the oath.” He would offer no exemption for an individual whose conscience would not allow him to participate in a union the vast majority of the world's religions deem sinful. “When you go back and re-read the oath it doesn’t give you an out. You have to do it,” he said. He told a reporter that there “might” be “individual circumstances” that “merit some examination, but none that come immediately to mind for me.” “I think for folks who are in the government world, they kind of have to do their job, whether you agree with the law or you don’t,” the pugna

Supporting marriage may be offensive: Public school students need permission slips to hear Santorum

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GROSSE POINTE, MI, April 11, 2013 ( LifeSiteNews.com ) – This week, controversy erupted at a public high school in Michigan after former presidential candidate Rick Santorum was  disinvited  from giving a speech to its students because he supports traditional marriage. The Young Americans for Freedom chapter at Grosse Pointe South Public High School invited the two-term U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania to give a speech on “leadership” and secured school approval for the visit. But Grosse Pointe Public School System Superintendent Dr. Thomas Harwood canceled the speech on Monday because of Santorum's rejection of gay “marriage,” according to Breitbart.com. After outcry from the group of teens who raised the $18,000 necessary to bring Santorum to their school, the district relented and will permit the speech to go forward. However, students will now need a signed permission slip from their parents to hear from Santorum, implying his views are offensive or potentially

VIDEO: Dan Savage: America’s ‘bully-in-chief’

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Nov. 23, 2012 ( LifeSiteNews.com ) – A leading pro-family group has released  a telling exposé  charging that Dan Savage , the founder of the massively popular ‘ It Gets Better ’ homosexual anti-bullying campaign, is himself the country’s “bully-in-chief.” Savage writes the syndicated sex column   Savage Love , where, in his own words, he “traffics the skeeziest sex practices known to man.” He is famous for his campaign defaming Republican presidential candidate Sen. Rick Santorum by using a technique known as “ Google-bombing ” to associate his name on the search engine with a grotesque aspect of sodomy. In the ‘It Gets Better’ campaign, Savage encouraged people to produce their own short video message to homosexual teens, and won support from celebrities and politicians, including President Obama . By endorsing the campaign, said Savage, Obama was telling “queer kids” that “there’s something wrong with your parents, there’s something wrong with your preachers, … an

Does sexual fidelity play the same role in same-sex unions?

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English: Maggie Gallagher at the Cato Institute (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Dear Marriage Supporter, The guys at Oxford University Press are no dummies. When they needed someone to make the case against same-sex marriage as part of a Point/Counterpoint series, edited by James Sterba of Notre Dame, they went straight to the top: to one of the best, the brightest and most articulate spokespeople for marriage in America. They asked NOM's own co-founder, Maggie Gallagher , to spar with Prof . John Corvino (who co-authored the book and writes the pro- gay marriage arguments). The resulting book,  Debating Same-Sex Marriage  was released this week, and today I'm heading up to Manhattan to watch the book launch. Live from New York: It's Maggie Gallagher and John Corvino "Debating Same-Sex Marriage." The two of them will be "Conversing" (with a capital C) with David Blankenhorn on the marriage debate: what it means, why it is hard, and why it matt

Embarrassed Savage will debate NOM

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Dan Savage speaking at Bradley University in Peoria, Illinois (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) It looks like Dan Savage is taking the National Organization for Marriage (NOM) President Brian Brown up on his offer for a Bible debate -- and the outspoken lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender ( LGBT ) rights advocate has picked an unusual setting, one in which personalizes himself and is on his turf and his rules. Nothing has changed for Savage. It is always his way and his perspective.  "So, what I’d like to do is invite you to dinner," Savage reveals in a new podcast. "Bring the wife. My husband will be there. I will hire a video crew and we will video sort of an after dinner debate."  Savage, who infamously launched a campaign to redefine former GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum 's last name into a neologism involving anal sex, then continued: "You have to acknowledge my humanity by accepting my hospitality, and I have to acknowledge yours b

Bully Dan Savage!

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Sex advice columnist, journalist, and newspaper editor Dan Savage. (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) They used to arrest middle-aged perverts who get their jollies from talking dirty to children. Today, they get a television show, a nationally syndicated column, a lecture circuit and multiple visits to the Obama White House . “Savaging the Pope” (exclusive AFTAH video from Elmhurst College speech) Dan Savage Chides “Pansy-Ass” Attitude of Offended High School Students Dan Savage Angrily Rejects Peter LaBarbera’s Request to Take Down “Santorm.com” Hate Site The irony is palpable. Dan Savage , sex columnist and founder of the LGBT anti-bullying “It Gets Better” campaign, has been outed. Not as a homosexual. He’s out and proud in that regard. In fact, Savage pushes his “anything goes” brand of sexual anarchy on kids worldwide. MTV has even given the sex-obsessed radical his own show, “Savage U” – a moral-relativist platform from which to corrupt the kiddos. Savage has finally managed to pu

Is gay Dan Savage a bully?

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Official photographic portrait of US President Barack Obama (born 4 August 1961; assumed office 20 January 2009) (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Sex advice columnist, journalist, and newspaper editor Dan Savage. (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) By now you've probably heard about leading gay marriage activist Dan Savage 's vile attack on Christian teens during his "anti-bullying" presentation at a student journalism conference in Seattle last month. But did you know that President Obama has endorsed Dan Savage and his " It Gets Better " campaign as a core part of the official White House campaign against school bullying? Is this what stands for "anti-bullying" inside the Obama White House? Please take a moment right now to tell President Obama that Savage's hostility toward Christians has no place in an anti-bullying campaign. Tolerance and respect for the basic human dignity of each person. There is simply no excuse for bullying—in any arena—and the

What is homosexuality?

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Image via Wikipedia Image via Wikipedia Image via Wikipedia Image via Wikipedia Image via Wikipedia First of all, the word “ homosexuality ” is a fairly recent term that originated within modern Western culture in the fields of medicine, psychiatry and psychology. Prior to the 19th century , most people understood male/male or female/female sexual intimacy from a  behavioral  point of view. Individuals who engaged in it were not thought to be  essentially  different from those who didn’t; but their  actions  were deemed to be sinful, or even criminal. In the 1800s, these ideas began to shift toward a consideration of the  nature  of the people involved. This continued on into the next century as an emphasis on individual sexuality emerged and proliferated. Sex was no longer viewed simply as an activity that people engaged in but as a real, central and indispensable dimension of the self. The word homosexuality itself was first used by a German psychologist in 1869 to describe a form