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The phrases ‘religious liberty’ and ‘religious freedom’ will stand for nothing except hypocrisy so long as they remain code words for discrimination, intolerance, racism, sexism, homophobia, Islamophobia or any form of intolerance. – US Commission on Civil Rights Chairman, Martin Castro. September 19, 2016  (HLI)  — There it is, folks — the official position of an official agency of the federal government , not an LGBT activist group. Actually, it appears that the Commission on Civil Rights is now, in fact, an LGBT activist group. For those paying attention to the assault on life, faith, and family – really on every natural and traditional institution in the nation — the September 7 report from the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights is not so much shocking as it is another chance for people to wake up to how far our nation has fallen. The report from the now-ironically named commission was called  “Peaceful Coexistence: Reconciling Nondiscrimination Principl...

The first profile in cowardice is in the state of Nevada , where this week the Attorney General and the Governor  withdrew their defense of that state's marriage laws against a legal challenge by gay activists. The Democratic Attorney General, Catherine Cortez Masto , filed a brief opining that Nevada's present law defining marriage as the union of one man and one woman — an amendment passed by the voters of the state in 2002 — is likely to fail before the bench of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals . The Republican Governor of Nevada, Brian Sandoval , then issued a written statement to the press saying that he agreed with Masto's analysis. But they are wrong. Masto cited as reasoning an earlier case decided by a three-judge panel of the 9th Circuit led by the notorious Judge Stephen Reinhardt . The previous case involved jury selection and the legality of peremptory strikes of homosexual jury candidates. First off, it isn't even clear that that case applies ...

The author of the Supreme Court's DOMA decision, which stated that advocates of traditional marriage are motivated by bigotry, has denied a petition to prevent California from resuming same-sex “marriages.” The high court released a statement yesterday stating tersely, "Justice [Anthony] Kennedy denied the application on his own, without further comment." Justice Anthony Kennedy dismissed the emergency motion. The Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) issued the  emergency motion  Saturday on behalf of the California residents who attempted to protect Proposition 8, the state constitutional amendment that defined marriage as the union of one man and one woman. Among these is Dennis Hollingsworth of  Hollingsworth v. Perry . The Supreme Court ruled that the people of California lacked standing to defend the case in federal court after Judge Vaughn Walker ruled the constitutional amendment unconstitutional shortly after its passage in November 2008. The Nint...

The Supreme Court has issued a ruling that could lead to the resumption of same-sex “marriages” in the state of California after a thin majority of justices held that the state's voters had no legal standing to challenge a court decision striking down Proposition 8 . Under federal law, they said, the people of a state have no legal recourse if a popular initiative is struck down by judicial decree. After a vigorous debate, the voters of California passed Proposition 8 in November 2008 by a margin of 52-48. After a lower court threw out that the voter-supported constitutional amendment – which defined marriage as a union between one man and one woman – Governor Jerry Brown , then the state's attorney general, as well as other elected officials refused to appeal the decision. Instead, a coalition of voters and private citizens cited their right to defend the measure in court. Under state law, they argued, the voters may defend such a law in court, if their elect...

Many people simply don’t grasp the lies behind the challenge to Proposition 8 . The first lie: the challenge was about gay marriage. The truth is that it is about a Christian’s right to vote. The second lie: Proposition 8 took away a right to gay marriage. The truth is, that right never (legally) existed in California. In 2000, California voters approved a law that defined marriage as between a man and a woman, while granting the state the ability to give all the benefits of marriage to couples in a same-sex domestic partnership. This was the everything but the word “marriage” approach to same-sex unions. When those partnerships were being debated in the legislature, even homosexual activists claimed that they did not want the word marriage. It was a religious term, they said, and one with which they wanted nothing to do. But in 2004, the mayor San Francisco directed his county clerk to begin issuing marriage licenses to same sex couples. This office is non-elected, and the clerk...

Stained glass at St John the Baptist's Anglican Church http://www.stjohnsashfield.org.au, Ashfield, New South Wales. Illustrates Jesus' description of himself "I am the Good Shepherd" (from the Gospel of John, chapter 10, verse 11). This version of the image shows the detail of his face. The memorial window is also captioned: "To the Glory of God and in Loving Memory of William Wright. Died 6th November, 1932. Aged 70 Yrs." (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) The Supreme Court has now ruled on two monumental marriage cases, and the legal and cultural landscape has changed in this country. The court voted to strike down the Defense of Marriage Act and remand the decision of the Ninth Circuit in the Proposition 8 case, holding that California's Proposition 8 defenders didn't have standing. The Defense of Marriage Act decision used rather sweeping language about equal protection and human dignity as they apply to the recognition of same-sex unions. But w...