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Gay ‘marriage’ won’t be legal in Wisconsin ‘anytime soon,’ Governor Scott Walker says

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The state of Wisconsin will not change its definition of marriage “anytime soon,” according to Republican Governor Scott Walker . Although state voters enacted a constitutional marriage protection amendment in 2006 with 59 percent of the vote, and polls show a majority of state residents do not support redefining marriage, the media asked the governor to address the issue this weekend at the National Governors Association meeting in Milwaukee. Changing the state constitution “requires two consecutive sessions of the legislature, and ultimately, a vote of the people. I just don't see that being an issue that's going to be addressed anytime soon,” he said. During a break at the meeting, Illinois Governor Pat Quinn , a Democrat and a Catholic,  called  on the Republican Walker to support gay “marriage” in order to fit in with surrounding states. But the states bordering Wisconsin largely do  not  same-sex “marriage.” Minnesota  changed the defini...

Catholic Maryland governor rejects bishop’s exhortation not to support gay ‘marriage’

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Image via Wikipedia BALTIMORE, MD , August 17, 2011  – Edwin O’Brien , the archbishop of Baltimore , isn’t happy with the Catholic governor of Maryland ’s decision to sponsor homosexual “marriage” legislation, but the governor has said that has no intention of backing down. A July letter from Archbishop Edwin O’Brien to Governor Martin O’Malley , a Democrat, and an August 4 written response by the governor, were both  posted  on the governor’s blog last Tuesday. In his original letter Archbishop O’Brien challenged Governor O’Malley to act in line with his faith and not to support homosexual “marriage,” suggesting that the governor was acting out of “mere political expediency.” “Preserving the central role of the natural family unit has always been — and should continue to be — the reason why our government recognizes marriage as existing between one man and one woman,” he said. O’Brien suggested that the July passage of similar legislation in New York has intensifie...

Catholic Maryland Gov. pushing homosexual ‘marriage’ on the state

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Image via Wikipedia Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley has set the passage of same-sex “marriage” as a legislative priority for next year, after New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo ’s success last month. “I certainly plan to be very active in support of it, and we’ll have other announcements in upcoming months,” Gov. O’Malley said Friday at a meeting for the National Governors Association in Salt Lake City . A Maryland same-sex “marriage” bill passed the State senate in February, but it failed in the House of Delegates in March.  Gov. O’Malley had promised to sign it if it been approved by the House. But now O’Malley has pledged to step up his efforts, following Gov. Cuomo’s example.  “There are times in Annapolis when a governor’s support can move an issue over the goal line,” he said. “I think we can learn from what they did [in New York],” he added. “One of the things we’re looking at in the drafting is how their clauses with regard to religious freedom were different from our...