“Marriage is what it is, what Jesus said from the beginning: Two in one flesh, for which man leaves his family and joins himself to his wife; and wife leaves her family, and joins herself to her husband.  There must surely be ways in our civil society, where we can honor friendships, where we can respect other people, without destroying …

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Video by JMG reader Sean Chapin.

Utah held its second annual Pink Dot festival yesterday in an event that took its lead from Singapore’s ground-breaking event of the same name.  Great photos are here. Below is Utah’s gorgeous promotional video.

Germany’s Catholic bishops have declared that they will no longer perform sacraments or burial services for those that opt-out of paying church taxes. Germans who officially declare themselves members of major denominations pay an additional 8% of their annual tax bill which is then granted to their church.  The Vatican has approved the new decree. Alarmed by a wave of …

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The Honduran government has granted permission for the construction of a new city that will be completely free of income, sales, and capital gains taxes. The city will be built by an American investment group of libertarians that says it will use the state of Texas as a model for the few laws they will put in place. Proponents say …

The Family Research Council and Focus On The Family have issued a joint congressional scorecard which rates members of the House and Senate on ten “values votes.” The categories, unsurprisingly, are abortion, school vouchers, Obamacare, and same sex marriage.  Five Senators and 102 members of the House received a 100% score.  Most amusingly, the only perfect score in the New …

The DNC does some cartwheels.

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Added today to Mitt Romney’s campaign site: “America must have a forward-looking, visionary space policy and Mitt Romney has the determination and the focus on technology we need to chart a clear path. Today’s U.S. policy lacks direction and along the way we have become completely dependent on the Russians to continue human exploration. That is not acceptable. We have …

This is the same douchebag who said that watching Glee is “like stepping in a puddle of HIV.”

Germany-based Boehringer Ingelheim, which sells Aptivus and Viramune, two of the world’s most widely-prescribed HIV medications, has announced that they are closing their virology research division. “To ensure our sustained growth, competitiveness and independence, Boehringer Ingelheim has been focusing on areas of high medical need in which we have convincing research targets as well as outstanding capabilities,” said Dr. Michel …

Here’s a strange poem from Courage, the Catholic “ex-gay” group that acknowledges that you might have been born gay but should spend your entire life wallowing in the unending misery of never knowing love. And most importantly, never knowing the touch of another man. Clip description: The topic of homosexuality and the issues around same sex marriage are very charged …

Yesterday Pope Benedict launched a scathing attack on France’s plan to legalize same-sex marriage. The Pope thus raised three points: Firstly saying that marriage between man and woman is a “fact” of nature and “threatened” by other forms of marriage which are “proven”to be “defective”. Secondly, he warned of that the consequences of legalising gay marriage would harm society, perhaps …

An anti-Obama DVD titled Dreams From My Real Father has been mailed to 1.5 million voters, most of them in Ohio. The video claims that the president’s real father was the late Frank Marshall Davis, a Chicago writer with affiliations to the Communist Party. The film’s director and producer, Joel Gilbert, said that the film was sent out to more …

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