Rather than try to rescue tax-exempt status for organizations that dissent from settled public policy on matters of race or sexuality, we need to take a more radical step. It’s time to abolish, or greatly diminish, their tax-exempt statuses.
Obamacare and gay marriage are now off the political table. In the primaries, approximately 40% of the Republican base are white, evangelical Christians. In the general election, the diversity of the American electorate comes into full play.
The Washington Post observes that because “real money” is involved in legal marriage, the ruling could cause religious schools that ban homosexual relationships and cohabitation to suffer “in a big way” with the loss of tax-exempt status and accreditation.
Since Friday’s Supreme Court ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges, America’s liberal press has written countless victory laps declaring their version of reality the new normal–and conservative support of traditional marriage now a relic of history. Tom Garrett at The Axis of Ego writes an astounding summary of what really has changed–and just how radical this “new normal” is.
Judge Richard Posner writes at Slate.com that the dissent by Chief Justice John Roberts in the gay marriage case is “heartless.” It is a false charge, and part of the effort to shame opposing views–about which Justice Samuel Alito warned in his own dissent.
The San Francisco’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Pride Parade, (just called “Pride”), expect 1 million merrymakers to bask in euphoria on Sunday.
Sunday on CNN’s “Inside Politics,” discussing the Supreme Court ruling legalizing same sex marriage, National Journal reporter Ron Fournier compared Republican presidential candidate former Gov. Mike Huckabee (R-AK) to the segregationist former Governor of Arkansas Orval Faubus. Fournier said, “Switch out
Sunday on NBC’s “Meet The Press,” Republican presidential candidate Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said any attempt at a constitutional amendment to ban same sex marriage is “a process that is not going to bear fruit” and would only hurt the
Californians have seen it before. From the overturn of voter approved Proposition 8 and Proposition 22 to this week’s U.S. Supreme Court decision in Obergefell v. Hodges to institute homosexual marriage in all 50 states, judges overruled the will of the people.
Broadcasting live from our nations capital on Sirius XM Patriot radio, editor-in-chief of Breitbart News and host of Breitbart News Saturday, Alexander Marlow, said that on Friday the Supreme Court “invented a natural law. They invented an innate civil right.”
A newspaper editor in Harrisburg, PA has thought better of his statement that voices opposing same-sex marriage would no longer be welcome in either op-eds or letters to the editor of his newspaper. He now says all views are welcome.
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia took a swipe at California in his dissent of Friday’s landmark 5-4 ruling that made gay marriage a constitutionally protected right under the Fourteenth Amendment and legal in all 50 states.
The Internet’s biggest companies celebrated Saturday after the U.S. Supreme Court handed down a landmark ruling Friday making same-sex marriage legal in all 50 states.
CNN Senior Legal Analyst Jeffrey Toobin said that it wasn’t legal “to talk about gay people the way Justice Scalia used to talk about gay people” while recounting Scalia’s prior dissent in Lawrence v. Texas on Friday’s “CNN Newsroom.” Toobin said
GOP presidential candidate and former Texas Governor Rick Perry dubbed the Supreme Court “legislators in robes” and said the US’ foreign policy is “erratic at best” on Saturday’s “Fox & Friends” on the Fox News Channel. Perry said that he
Even before the Supreme Court delivered a historic victory for gay rights, conservatives on Capitol Hill had begun readying themselves to protect those with the opposite mindset: Americans who believe marriage is between a man and a woman.
Penny Nance, the CEO and president of Concerned Women for America, is praising Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s push for a constitutional amendment to protect traditional marriage in the wake of the Supreme Court rulings that same-sex marriage is constitutional.
DENVER, Colorado—Over 4000 delegates are expected to gather at Denver’s Convention Center this weekend for the Western Conservative Summit. Speakers include presidential candidates Rick Santorum, Mike Huckabee, Carly Fiorina, Rick Perry, Ben Carson, and Scott Walker.
A newspaper in Harrisburg, PA has announced henceforth it intends to censor certain views about marriage deemed no better than racism, sexism, anti-Semitism.
From AL.com: Pike County officials haven’t issued marriage licenses in months, and today Probate Judge Wes Allen announced that his office is now permanently out of the marriage business. “My office discontinued issuing marriage licenses in February and I have
The U.S. Supreme Court mandated same-sex marriage a constitutional right Friday. Of those cheering, none were likely happier than Robert E. Blackmon, the author of The Gay Groom’s Guide.
Followers of Barack Obama’s White House social media accounts got an extra treat Friday after the Supreme Court declared a constitutional right to same-sex marriage.
Huckabee compared America today – now oppressed with the legalization of same-sex marriage at the hands of five Justices – to the nation’s Founders who challenged the tyranny of the British monarch.
Author Fredrik deBoer argues that Chief Justice John Roberts is correct in his dissent on same-sex marriage declaring that “the majority’s reasoning would apply with equal force” to plural marriage–and that’s not a bad thing.
The College itself has maintained that a significant body of research has demonstrated that “same-sex marriage deliberately deprives the child of a mother or a father, and is therefore harmful.”
