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Polygamists Successfully Using Same-Sex Marriage Arguments in Court

Dec 17, 2013JerryMarriageMarriage, Polygamy, Same-Sex Marriage

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.

Marriage: The Unsung Hero Against Poverty

Oct 30, 2013JerryMarriageMarriage, Poverty, Same-Sex Marriage

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

Graduate from high school.
Get married.
Have children after you are married.
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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Another Midnight Bewitching Hour

Oct 25, 2013JerryHomosexuality, MarriageMarriage, Same-Sex Marriage

The following is by Family Council staff member Deborah Beuerman.

At 12:01am October 21, several same-sex couples in New Jersey were “married” after the state Supreme Court rejected Gov. Chris Christie’s request to delay until after his appeal of an earlier lower court ruling could be heard.

In September, a state court judge ruled that, in light of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling mandating that the federal government recognize same-sex “marriages,” New Jersey must allow them. Gov. Christie appealed that decision and asked for a stay on it.

Gov. Christie has said that voters at the ballot box, not a court or legislators, should decide the issue. But Gov. Christie dropped his legal challenge to a same-gender law on October 21.

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