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Terrorist says he targeted Family Research Council because of SPLC website

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English: American politician Tony Perkins. (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) WASHINGTON, D.C. , - The Southern Poverty Law Council's decision to label ministries that oppose same-sex "marriage" as "hate groups" led directly to the Family Research Council (FRC) shooting, according to a chilling new video. The footage, which FRC obtained from the FBI , shows interrogators asking   Floyd Lee Corkins II  how he decided to target the pro-family organization for his August shooting rampage. "This organization...how did you find it earlier?" an investigator asks Corkins. "Did you look it up online?" “Southern Poverty Law lists anti-gay groups," Corkins replies. "I found them online, did a little research, went to the website - stuff like that.” The admission outraged FRC President Tony Perkins . "The SPLC's reckless labeling has led to devastating consequences," Perkins said. "Because of its 'hate group...

Millennials the only generation whose majority supports same-sex ‘marriage’

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 – Support for same-sex "marriage" is split significantly along generational lines, with opposition to marriage redefinition remaining strong among older generations and only millennials mustering majority support, according to a recent poll. A Pew Research Forum this month found that 70 percent of those born after 1981 favor marriage redefinition. No other generation crossed the threshold of 50 percent. Support for preserving marriage tracked largely with age. The second greatest support for marriage redefinition was among Generation X , those born between 1965-1980, with 49 percent. America 's largest population bloc, Baby Boomers , trailed far behind, with only 38 percent in favor of homosexual “ marriages .” Their views are not so different from their parents, the Silent Generation . Less than one-third of those born before 1945 would redefine marriage. Overall, opposition to same-sex “marriage” actually increased since last year , ...

Thousands gather in D.C., nationwide during March for Marriage

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WASHINGTON, D.C. , March 26, 2013 ( LifeSiteNews.com ) – Thousands of Americans from all religions, races, and political parties gathered around the nation as the Supreme Court heard the first of two cases concerning the definition of marriage, with two boisterous and sometimes clashing crowds meeting outside the Supreme Court. (see Media Reseach  video report here )  The March for Marriage traced the streets of D.C., with throngs holding signs that said, “Kids do best with a mom and a dad.” At times, police stood between them and the rowdy supporters of marriage redefinition, who flanked them and shouted at them on either side of the street while holding handmade signs that read, “Go home homophobes, you're all drunk!” As a large group met in the nation's capital, an untold number of others held rallies in San Diego, Salt Lake City, and elsewhere. The two dueling rallies in Washington could scarcely have contrasted any more. At the same time as the March fo...

Gays or Government do not have the right to refine marriage for the rest of us

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WASHINGTON, D.C. , March 1, 2013, ( Heritage Foundation ) - Some former officials in the Republican Party are urging the Supreme Court to  redefine marriage for the nation . But support for marriage as the union of a man and a woman is essential to American —and conservative—principles. Indeed, nothing could be less conservative than urging an activist court to redefine an essential institution of civil society . As my co-authors and I argue in our new book,  What Is Marriage? , and in the  amicus  brief we filed with the Supreme Court , marriage exists to bring a man and a woman together as husband and wife to be father and mother to any children their union produces. It is based on the anthropological truth that men and women are different and complementary, on the biological fact that reproduction depends on a man and a woman, and on the social reality that children need a mother and a father. Marriage has public purposes that transcend its private p...

Obama to Supreme Court: 'Overwhelming expert consensus' gay parents as good as heterosexuals

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Official photographic portrait of US President Barack Obama (born 4 August 1961; assumed office 20 January 2009) (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) WASHINGTON, D.C. , February 28, 2013, ( LifeSiteNews.com ) – President Obama's Justice Department argued that homosexuals do as good a job parenting as heterosexual couples, in a late-breaking  amicus curiae  brief filed with the Supreme Court this afternoon. According to the  legal brief  opposing California's Proposition 8 , the “overwhelming expert consensus,” which is “supported by numerous scientific studies,” is “that children raised by gay and lesbian parents are as likely to be well adjusted as children raised by heterosexual parents.” “The weight of the scientific literature strongly supports the view that same-sex parents are just as capable as opposite-sex parents,” the Obama administration stated. The  amicus  cites a number of studies, as well as policy statements from the  American ...

Obama to Supreme Court: Denying homosexuals special rights, quotas is 'discrimination'

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WASHINGTON, D.C. , February 26, 2013, ( LifeSiteNews.com ) – The fact that Americans have regularly voted against such pillars of the homosexual agenda as granting homosexuals special rights in hiring or college admission quotas is proof that gays and lesbians face discrimination, according to the Obama administration 's amicus curiae brief seeking to overturn the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). Under the section “ Gay and lesbian people have been subject to a history of discrimination,” the administration cites a number of laws, most of them repealed decades ago, as well as the results of “voter referenda.” The Justice Department document notes that attempts to add sexual preference to civil rights ordinances have “engendered significant political backlash, as evidenced by a series of successful state and local ballot initiatives, starting in the 1970s, repealing [an] anti-discrimination...law or executive order.” “In 15 of these 21 cases, a majority voted to repeal the law o...

Pentagon expected to offer benefits to same-sex ‘spouses’

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WASHINGTON, D.C. , February 6, 2013 ( LifeSiteNews ) – In the waning days of his tenure, outgoing Obama administration defense secretary Leon Panetta is expected to announce the expansion of some military dependent benefits to the same-sex “spouses” of homosexual personnel. The new benefits may include housing privileges, access to base recreational facilities and shopping, and joint duty assignments for same-sex couples.    Leon Panetta At least for now, health care coverage and some other benefits will remain off-limits to homosexual couples due to the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), which defines marriage as a union between one man and one woman in federal law. The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments next month about the constitutionality of the law.  They are expected to rule on the issue before the end of June. The Obama administration has continually sought to expand benefits for homosexual government employees and their partners, as the preside...

Washington National Cathedral to perform immoral homosexual marriage

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WASHINGTON, D.C. , January 10, 2013 ( LifeSiteNews.com ) – Washington National Cathedral , which has long been called “the nation’s church” for its prominent role in the religious life of presidents, lawmakers and other famous leaders, will begin celebrating same-sex “ marriages ” effective immediately, officials said Wednesday. The Cathedral will be among the first Episcopal churches to begin celebrating a new rite of “marriage” for its homosexual members added by Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde of the Washington diocese in December. Budde’s diocese includes D.C. and a large part of Maryland .  Same-sex “marriage” is now legal in both jurisdictions.  Washington National Cathedral This diocesan expansion of the church’s definition of marriage is permitted under a “local option” granted by the Episcopal Church’s General Convention . At least for now, each priest in the diocese will have the freedom to decide whether to perform same-sex unions. The century-old cathedral...