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This is the new committee that the bill was moved to after it failed to progress in the House Judiciary Committee. Watch it live here. Follow on Twitter at the hashtag #HJR3. UPDATE: Speakers have included a lawyer for Alliance Defending Freedom. Curiously she did not mention her former co-worker who is serving a 40-year prison sentence for making child …

“If you redefine marriage, so as to say that the male-female aspect is irrational and arbitrary, what principle for policy and for law will retain the other three historic components of marriage—monogamy, exclusivity, and permanency? We’ve already seen new words created to challenge each and every one of these norms. Consider one example: Throuple is a three person couple. If …

Yesterday the GOP speaker of the Indiana House made the “highly unusual” move of switching the marriage equality ban bill to a new committee after it appeared to be failing before the House Judiciary Committee. Today Bilerico reports that a local gay House candidate has quit the Republican party in response. Andy Markle writes on his Facebook page: It deeply …

Via the Indianapolis Star: In a highly unusual move, Indiana House Speaker Brian Bosma today moved a controversial same-sex marriage ban to a new committee after the measure stalled in a previous committee. Bosma said the proposed amendment to the state constitution, known as House Joint Resolution 3, will be moved from the House Judiciary Committee to the Elections and …

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Yesterday the Indiana House Judiciary Committee held its hearing on the proposed constitutional ban on same-sex marriage. At one point the committee chair had to admonish the gallery for laughing at the claims of an anti-gay nutjob. Jim Bopp, an anti-LGBT attorney who was forced out as Indiana’s representative to the Republican National Committee in 2012, told the committee that …

UPDATE: Watch the proceedings live.  Another live stream is here. Follow along on Twitter at the hashtag #HJR3. UPDATE II: The testimony has concluded. The committee’s vote has been postponed and will not be held today. A committee of the Indiana House is just a few hours away from possibly advancing a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage. Via the Indianapolis …

Good As You reports that Indiana Gov. Mike Pence (R-Duh) will keynote an anti-gay marriage luncheon to be held later this month by the Indiana Family Institute. The Marriage Amendment is at a very critical point. Legislators need to know that fellow believers back home are supporting them as they support marriage. As a part of the event, attendees will …

Indiana’s long expected constitutional ban on same-sex marriage has been introduced in the state House. A resolution that would amend Indiana’s constitution to ban same-sex marriage was filed in the Indiana House of Representatives as expected today, setting into motion a bitter fight between conservatives who want to protect traditional matrimony and those who want to protect the rights of …

(Via Good As You)

Brian Brown appeared on an MSNBC panel this weekend where he declared that if a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage were to make it onto the Indiana ballot, “We’ll see North Carolina all over again.” Josh Barro gets in some good shots.

As advertised, Mary Cheney on Thursday appeared at a Freedom Indiana event to denounce the attempt to write a gay marriage ban into the state constitution. Via Buzzfeed: Of Freedom Indiana’s campaign against the proposal, which must be passed by the legislature for a second time before being put to the people for a vote, Mary Cheney said, “While certainly …

Mary Cheney will help Freedom Indiana raise money to fight that state’s proposed constitutional ban on same-sex marriage. From Cheney’s message that accompanies the above image: “Speaking out against HJR-6 isn’t a matter of politics. It’s about family. It’s about everyone feeling welcome in the state they call home. There’s nothing I wouldn’t do to protect my wife Heather and …

“Dear Joe, The ball is in our court. Same-sex ‘marriage’ activists have launched an unprecedented assault on marriage over the past 12 months. And in that time, we’ve seen some terrible losses for this cherished institution. But the truth is that these radicals targeted the most liberal of states — states like Illinois and Hawaii where the political situation was …

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An electronic billboard for an Indiana shopping center features an Obama=Hitler message from the insane Lyndon LaRouche freaks. New Civil Rights Movement blogger David Badash notes that the Facebook page for CVS is being deluged with complaints. Badash adds that the sign is “not directly under their control.”

Fly, monkeys! Fly! (Tipped by JMG reader Birdie)

Almost two-thirds of polled Indiana voters say they oppose the proposed constitutional ban on same-sex marriage. By 64 percent to 36 percent, voters say amending the Indiana Constitution is not the right way to deal with same sex marriage. A slight plurality – 46 percent to 43 percent – oppose the amendment. For comparison, an April 2013 statewide survey by …

Via the Associated Press: A coalition of businesses and activist groups who launched a push Wednesday to defeat an amendment that would write Indiana’s same-sex marriage ban into the state constitution warned that if it passes it would set the state back and undermine the rights of its gay and lesbian residents. The push by the new Freedom Indiana coalition …

According to an Indiana politics blog, any gay couple in that state who applies for a marriage license faces up to three years in prison. A 1997 state law declares it a Class D felony to submit false information on a marriage license application or lie about the physical condition, including gender, of a marriage license applicant. Two men or …