U.S. Supreme Court Puts a Stay on Federal Judge’s Ruling

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Last month a federal District Court judge issued a ruling against Utah’s ban on same-sex marriage, resulting in the issuance of marriage licenses to same-sex couples in that state.

Today, however, the U.S. Supreme Court placed a stay on that ruling, meaning marriage in Utah will remain one man to one woman while the lawsuit over Utah’s marriage amendment progresses.

Family Research Council President Tony Perkins summed up the implications of this decision in a statement today, saying, “The Supreme Court has today signaled that it will not allow state laws defining marriage to be set aside by a lone judge without a careful consideration of the issues involved.”

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Polygamists Successfully Using Same-Sex Marriage Arguments in Court

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You may have seen the news, yesterday, that a federal judge in Utah struck part of the state’s ban on polygamy.

In effect, the judge decriminalized polygamy, although he did not go so far as to say the state must give legal recognition to plural “marriages.”

The judge’s ruling relied in part on court rulings same-sex marriage activists have obtained over the years, specifically citing Lawrence v. Texas, a case that has been central to virtually every lawsuit over same-sex marriage, including the Supreme Court decision last summer to strike part of the federal Defense of Marriage Act.

We’ve written before about how polygamists hope to benefit from same-sex marriage. Now it’s happening. Polygamist cults in Utah are riding the coattails of same-sex marriage.

Below is a video of Family Research Council’s Tony Perkins discussing the issue on CNN last night.

Click here to read more about the court ruling.

Click here to read the judge’s opinion.

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Marriage: The Unsung Hero Against Poverty

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There are four steps you can take in a specific order to reduce the chances your family will ever live in poverty. They are:

  1. Graduate from high school.
  2. Get married.
  3. Have children after you are married.
  4. Stay married.

If you do those four things in that order, the chances you and your children will live in poverty are reduced by 82%. If you go on to graduate from college, the chances drop even more drastically.

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