Because of a new law in Washington D.C. making homosexual marriage legal that does not make any provision for religions that believe differently, Catholic Charities will stop offering health care benefits to spouses of new employees in the district.
Rather than cancel its partnerships with the District of Columbia, Catholic Charities of Washington, D.C. has announced [...]
(Note: I am behind on posting my newspaper column here. Here is my column from August 6th, the week that Doyle’s domestic partner registry went into effect.)Publication:Waukesha Freeman (Conley); Date:Aug 6, 2009; Section:Opinion; Page Number:10AStrike down domestic partnerships
(James Wigderson is a blogger publishing at http://wigdersonlibrarypub.blogspot.com and a Waukesha resident. His column runs [...]
One of the admittedly recurring themes around here is the need to protect political speech, and that includes anonymous political speech. In California, supporters of Proposition 8 overturning the State Supreme Court’s overreach to impose gay marriage are experiencing harrassment and threats, and have gone to court to remove their donors’ names from the [...]
This appeared as a full page ad in the New York Times. The opportunistic scapegoating and accompanying violence towards the Mormon Church by homosexual activists after the passage of Proposition 8 in California should be condemned by all good and reasonable men of conscience.
Opponents of proposition 8 in California restoring the traditional definition of marriage has found an unpopular religion to scapegoat.
Right about now (nine years ago today), the priest looked at the lovely Doreen from Waukesha and I and said, “I now pronounce you man and wife.”
Doreen’s family cried.
So far we’ve had sickness and health, poorer, not so much the richer part. Ups and downs, good times and bad. But saying “I do” was [...]
Senator Barack Obama, whose previous position on gay marriage was that it should be left to the states. now feels that it is appropriate for a federal candidate for office to tell a state it should accept gay marriage. The Sacramento Bee is reporting Senator Obama now opposes the gay marriage ban referendum in [...]
Judge Richard Neiss of Dane County rejected a lawsuit claiming the referendum amending the constitution to ban same-sex marriage was itself unconstitutional.
UW-Oshkosh instructor William McConkey challenged the amendment, arguing Wisconsin statutes limit referendums on constitutional amendments to a single question. McConkey’s attorneys argued that the marriage amendment asked voters to respond to two separate [...]
On this date in 1533, England’s Archbishop declared the marriage of King Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn valid. Thomas Boleyn immediately signed a contract with Showtime selling his life story.
Just goes to show you that when the rule of law governing marriage is undermined, bad things will happen.
As you may have gathered from the comments on this post, my views on the proper limits of the courts were not exactly unanimously supported. Dave Fabie, a former Wisconsinite now living in San Francisco, takes special umbrage at my blog post and column.
Okay… So apparently the biggest “fear” that was facing the state of [...]
